Statement by Western Kenya Leaders in Busia

From @ANC_party

We are here as part of our ongoing Western solidarity movement whose destination is State House in 2022, in common partnership with Kenyans of like mind from other parts of the country.

Our energies come from the primary concern that selfishness has become the foremost driver in the search for political leadership in the country, among of detractors and adversaries. Everywhere across the country, Kenyans are smarting under the effects of bad leadership and the new coronavirus diseases. A critical mass of entitlement their leaders, including trade union leaders, have abandoned them.

While we had hooped that focus in the country would be on addressing the challenges that the new coronavirus has wrought among Kenyans, we have been duly concerned that strands of selfish individuals have come together to jolt the country back to caustic politics.

For a while, we watched in disbelief and pleased that the political class should go slow on politics and let all of us concentrate on the plight of the people. Our pleas, however, have fallen on deaf ears. We have seen not just self-seeking maneuvers everywhere but also maneuvers that are intended to be hostile and divisive.

Ironically, some of the same voices are telling MCAs to go slow on impeachment of governors, ostensibly because of the need to focus on fighting the coronavirus. Yet the same persons quickly rush to spend both public time and money running hugely divisive and expensive political programmes.

It is behind this background that we have been compelled to come out and set the record straight and to invite Kenyans of goodwill to walk with us in the search for making Kenya a better country. Western Kenya has been earmarked as the place that the journey begins. It must however not end here.

We have come home as Western leaders first because our Journey to make Kenya a better country must begin at home, in the manner in which charity begins at home.

In this regard, we are also awake to the sinister machinations that have been hatched to destablise the political kingpins of this region. Kenyans have seen externally driven efforts to rock ANC and FORD Kenya parties — efforts that specifically target Hon. Musalia Mudavdi and Hon. Moses Wetang’ula. These sinister ploys will be strongly resisted, beginning here in Western. We want to tell the owners of these machinations that you cannot sponsor a strange creature into the stable and turn it into a horse, if it is not a horse. The attempts to impose non-leaders upon the people of Western Kenya are doomed to fail from the start.

We have chosen to walk gallantly into the future and to 2022 as one solid block from Western Kenya. There will be no looking back. Let those who are someone’s project in the region, and their master, know that there is only one direction for us. There is no reverse gear, no surrender, no looking back. We are going all the way to the ballot box. Make no mistake. We will stand or fail together as one indivisible unit. But stand we will.

We have entered a defining moment and if you are not with us, forget about Western Kenya. If you are not with us, you are against our people. Accordingly, the people will also reject you. And we will make sure that you are rejected.

Finally, we are aware of diversionary efforts and sundry tricks to lure us from our path. They are coming in all manner of guises. Some come as invitations to join the Jubilee Government. Political parties are being collapsed for this purpose. Other are in the form of decoy and empty-shell projects, targeting our region. The treasury is empty. It is a limping shell of a vessel.

Our leaders are being herded together for a two-million shilling bus project. Other are narrow agendas and isolationist politics dubbed Luhya Unity and the like which have failed to recognize the multiplicity of Kenyan communities in Western and indeed in all parts of the country. This is a cosmopolitan region. Every Kenyan community in this area, and indeed in all parts of the country, should be respected and be allowed to enjoy its full citizenship rights. And yet others are confrontational politics using handpicked characters who have been specifically commissioned to try and derail our mission.

Let us remind ourselves that his government has had eight years in which it has lost the opportunity to bring meaningful projects to our people and region. It has squandered our enormous goodwill and the opportunity to work with us. There are now coming to lure us when all the funds have been squandered.

We will not be diverted by such red herrings. We will stay on course and stay the course. We invite the rest of Kenya to join us on this very critical mission to save our country. Meanwhile, we thank our people of Western for seeing through the wicked tricks of the so-called Luhya unity movement and for rejecting it. The Western Solidarity Movement is what our region and country needs. All Kenyan in Western matter.

Our agenda is Kenya; Our focus is on Kenya; Our Mission is Kenya; And so help us God.

We are firmly behind our Principals, namely, Hon. Musalia Mudavadi and Hon. Mose Wetang’ula and we shall walk together with the people of Western Kenya and resot of the country in our quest to see a transformed country.

From Western Kenya, we will soon go out to the rest of the country to talk with out fellow Kenyans and their leaders. We must restore hope to Kenyans together.