Former Kanu Secretary General Nick Salat has urged President William Ruto to ignore the demands made by Mt Kenya leaders during Friday's Limuru III conference in Kiambu county.
Speaking to the Star on the phone on Friday evening, Salat said that the Head of State should instead focus on delivering the pledges he made to Kenyans during the campaigns.
“I call upon our president not to be distracted by those whose agenda was purely on selfish motives and to stay focused on stabilising the economy, uniting and improving the living standards of Kenyans,” Salat said.
While accusing the leaders of trying to push their agendas using the tribal element, Salat alleged that their approach was not unifying but divisive and could divide Kenyans along tribal lines.
“Nobody in Kenya should feel better than others we were all born in Kenya and have the right to live and make key decisions without being dictated to,” he said.
The former Bomet MP added that it is sad that these leaders are now trying to raise political temperatures and yet Kenyans are now on the economic recovery paths after measures put up by the Kenya Kwanza government.
“As leaders, we need not to incline ourselves to regional elements because today's meeting was a clear indication of wanting to be special at the expense of all other communities,” he said.
He added that there is a five-year electioneering period and it is now time for the government to work and not engage in politics.
“This shows that few people want themselves to be treated in a special way which is wrong because every Kenyan deserves the national cake,” Salat said.
The former legislator advised the Limuru III organisers to be patient and wait for the next general elections to face Ruto.
“Kenyans can and will decide where their best interests lie and not on immature political meetings. This meeting is courting problems for the people who have not been in mainstream leadership and also deserve what is right for them,” he noted.
Salat also said such meetings are not good for the country because if other regions start engaging in the same it will polarise the country.
“If we continue to entertain such meetings by allowing other communities to engage in them, it will ruin our country because we are all one Kenya and we don’t have another nation,” Salat said.