{"id":919310,"date":"2022-01-24T23:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/24\/muturi-accuses-raila-ruto-of-hypocrisy-in-mt-kenya-vote-hunt\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:19:17","slug":"muturi-accuses-raila-ruto-of-hypocrisy-in-mt-kenya-vote-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/muturi-accuses-raila-ruto-of-hypocrisy-in-mt-kenya-vote-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Muturi accuses Raila, Ruto of hypocrisy in Mt Kenya vote hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bubmhyrm01l7bi61eef0b1deee9.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Speaker Justin Muturi. <\/strong>[Stafford Ondego, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi has accused ODM leader Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto of hypocrisy in their bid to win the vote-rich Mt Kenya bloc.\n<\/p>\n<p>While addressing leaders from Kiambu county over the weekend, the Speaker said it was ironical that the two leaders are now competing to endear themselves to the region, when their past actions and utterances betray their attitude towards the residents of the mountain. <\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"poNA2p4w88g\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi to vie for the presidency on a Democratic Party ticket\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/poNA2p4w88g?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that they assume there is a vacuum and the votes in that basket are up for grabs, they are suddenly the darling of the region. We need to remind them that we know what they have stood for and show them that we know what they are interested in is our votes and not our welfare post-2022,\u201d Mr Muturi said.<\/p>\n<p>He told Raila to stop being selective in his \u2018historical tales\u2019 as he seeks support for his candidature.\n<\/p>\n<p>Muturi said that while bragging to have helped former President Kibaki to ascend to power in 2002 with the famous \u2018Kibaki tosha\u2019 slogan, Raila should tell the people that hardly two years later, he continuously rocked the Kibaki administration, resulting in the deadly 2007\/2008 post-election violence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe says he was the one who declared Kibaki tosha. Very well, why doesn\u2019t he tell us that two years later, he was sacked by the same President for rocking his administration from within and seeking to lead a parallel government? Why does the story end with the tosha statement?\u201d posed Muturi, adding that Raila also unduly takes credit for infrastructure projects in the region. <\/p>\n<p>He dismissed Ruto\u2019s promise to set up a fund to help small business traders, noting that the DP\u00a0chairs the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC) where the country\u2019s resources are shared. Why these goodies he is promising have never been factored under his leadership should be questioned, he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the forum where The Treasury, all the 47 county governors, all the County Executive Committee members in-charge of Finance, the Controller of Budget, Auditor General and any other organs tasked with distribution of the national cake congregate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe chairs the forum. Why hasn\u2019t he introduced these measures to help that Mama Mboga?\u201d posed the Speaker.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/politics\/article\/2001435457\/muturi-accuses-raila-ruto-of-hypocrisy-in-mt-kenya-vote-hunt\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Justin Muturi. [Stafford Ondego, Standard] National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi has accused ODM leader Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto of hypocrisy in their bid to win the vote-rich Mt Kenya bloc. While addressing leaders from Kiambu county over the weekend, the Speaker said it was ironical that the two leaders are now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}