G7 alliance is about change, not to fight Raila.

Written by Rosemary Wachiye 2011-09-26 16:35:00 Read 179 Times

Nominated Mp Musikari Kombo, Saboti Mp Eugene Wamalwa and Eldoret North Mp William Ruto at Matulo secondary School in Bungoma during a funds drive for the school. [Photo/ RoseMAry Wachiye]   The G7 alliance members have stated that the alliance is for bring change and development and not meant to fight the Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The nominated Member of Parliament  Mr. Musikari Kombo stated that the alliance was going to see that the next government will bring an end to hunger and poverty in the country.   He also added that the leadership by the youths is now not tomorrow as people like to state and he challenged Raila to leave the presidential seat for the young aspirants since his time to lead is worn out.   The Member of Parliament for Saboti Constituency who is also a presidential aspirant Mr. Eugene Wamalwa complained of the tour by the Prime Minister to the grave yards of former leaders in western province stating that it was pointless.   “I wonder why he always has to visit graveyards of our people when it’s almost the election period, yet there are so many graves of former leaders in Nyanza and we have not heard that he has visited any of them,” said Mr. Wamalwa.   He sent a clear message for Raila that the next time he tours the region he should visit the industries in the region that have been closed down and needs reviving giving an example of Pan Paper factory and Kitinda Dairy.   The Member of Parliament for Eldoret North Mr. William Ruto, stated that the forthcoming election was going to a competition between the performers and the story tellers who cannot match their words with their actions.   “We need performers and not just story tellers who cannot do what they say, I support Mr.Wamalwa because he is a performer and as you know I am also a performer my record at the ministry of agriculture and higher education speaks for itself,” says Mr. Ruto.   “The next election is going to be about competition about ideas and how to change Kenya and not about personality as it has always been in the past,” says Mr. Ruto.   He said the G7 government will foresee expansion of the economy, eliminating of hunger and unemployment. Election date   Speaking at a fund raising towards construction of a new dormitory in Matulo Girls High School in Webuye, many political leaders disagreed with the suggestion to move forward the next General election date by three months from the normal time in August till December.   Wamalwa dismissed the suggestion to postpone the election date stating that there is a bill in parliament that is working towards retaining the election the way the constitution states.   “We already passed the constitution which states that the election date is the second week of August and so that is the date to follow I don’t agree with those who plan to change that,” says Mr. Wamalwa.   He also argued that December is not the best month to perform an election since that’s the month where most people tend to take a tour to the coast with family to relax; it’s also full of Christmas blues.    He added that very few countries ever risk carrying out an election in the Month of December and if we take to that then Kenya will be among the odd. “December is the worst month to carry out an election its time when most people are relaxing from work throughout the year and Kenyans should also ask themselves why most countries carry out election in August and not towards the end of the year,” says Mr. Wamalwa.   Also speaking at the function the nominated Member of Parliament who is also the former MP for Webuye constituency Mr. Musikari Kombo stated that the suggestion was not in line with what the new constituency says.   He warned Kenyan citizens against allowing the Members of Parliament to change the constitution as early as now stating the example of the Lancaster constitution which he says it didn’t take two years before the Kenyatta changed and destroyed it.   “We don’t want what happened to the Lancaster constitution to repeat itself with our newly earned constitution,” says Mr. Kombo. He adds that by allowing the government to change the constitution based on the budget then it will subordinating the constitution to work in line with the budget and yet the budget cycle is the one supposed to change to fit the constitution.    “Constitution is more key than the budget lets change our budget cycle to fit in the provisions of the constitution and not the other way round,” says Mr. Kombo.   Ending poverty The Member of Parliament for Eldoret North Mr. William , stated that there was need for the government to put in place a long term strategy towards putting a dent to unemployment, eliminating hunger and empowering the people towards eliminating poverty in the country.   He said that 70% of the Kenyan population were youths who need to be empowered with knowledge, expertise in generating jobs so as to eliminate unemployment and hunger.   “Such important issues towards development have been ignored and that is why the country seem to be suffering with many unemployment cases among the youths,” says Mr.Ruto. He added that when he was the Agriculture Minister he ensured that hunger was a thing of the past through increasing the price of sugar cane from Sh. 2.300 per tonne to Sh.3,000 in a period of six months and he believes that the same can be done to see to it that cane farmers are well paid.   “If we managed to increase cane prices in such a short period then what can stop the ministry from doing to same so that the cane farmer is paid up to Sh. 4,000 or Sh.5,000 or even Sh.6,000,”says Mr.Ruto.   He stated that the government cannot reduce hunger by importing maize from out of the country but instead it should put some mechanism to reduce the production cost for maize by reducing the prices for seeds and fertilizer.  “The government should reduce the costs of fertilizer and seeds so that the farmers can produce at a very low price and manage to benefit from their produce in high profits,.” Say Mr.Ruto.