Former Murang’a governor Mwangi wa Iria has said he will lead an anti-government movement that will call for the plight of Kenyans to be addressed.
Wa Iria has said he will hold a meeting with ‘non-shareholders’ on Thursday in Murang’a town to give Kenyans a platform to give their input and demand their rights.
The meeting will be attended by top Azimio La Umoja leaders led by Raila Odinga and will be held at Mothers’ Union hall before proceeding to the streets of Murang’a town.
Wa Iria has invited all Kenyans who feel oppressed by the high cost of living and the high taxes to attend the meeting and give their views.
He said this after presenting a notice for the meeting to Murang’a police station on Tuesday, just weeks after he made a passionate appeal to President William Ruto and Raila to give dialogue a chance.
Early this month, Wa Iria who is also the leader of the Usawa Kwa Wote party supported calls for bipartisan talks by the President and urged the two leaders to ensure the dialogue culminated in long-term reconciliation measures that would heal the country into the future.
But Wa Iria said with the failed start of the dialogue process that has resulted in Azimio La Umoja threatening to resume demonstrations after Ramadhan, he will be on the side of Kenyans struggling to get by.
He said the situation was aggravated by deputy president Rigathi Gachagua who said the Kenya Kwanza government was a company that had shareholders who would reap from their investment.
“Gachagua said non-shareholders would only get leftovers. That is why we have organized a meeting for non-shareholders and I will lead the movement. Raila was elected by about 7 million people and another 7 million did not vote. All these people are non-shareholders and are the majority."
“This will be a highly engaging meeting for people who have been informed that they are not entitled to the national cake, those who can’t afford medical care or school fees."
Apart from the high cost of living, other issues to be discussed in the meeting include the opening of elections servers that Raila has been calling for.
“If some people say that bad things happened in the servers and they refuse to open them then they are confirming their doubts."
Wa Iria said if the ‘shareholders’ and ‘non-shareholders’ cannot be reconciled, then the latter has a right to form their own nation that will fight for their interests.
“If they refuse to open the servers so we can ascertain who is the rightful shareholder, and the servers cannot be broken into, then let's split the country into two so we can leave the shareholders to their private company."
