Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka now says that he would never take a job if offered by the current administration.
Speaking on Thursday, the Senator said that it is because the Head of State might not like any of the things he has to say.
Onyonka was responding to a question on whether he could take a government job if offered one by the current administration.
“Right now? I can’t because the things I will tell the president he will not like them,” Onyonka said on Radio Jambo.
The ODM-elected Senator insisted that he would rather remain in the opposition.
He noted that when he got elected into office, he did not go to the Senate to cheer any policies the government brings forth if they are bad.
Onyonka said that despite his party leader Raila Odinga having a working arrangement with Ruto, he remains committed to his oversight role.
“I was not elected to come and clap for the government when it brings bad policies. I will remain in the Opposition. I respect my party leader but I know he is playing for the government’s side,” he said.
The senator, however, added that if opposition leaders appointed to the government can convince the Ruto administration to change its policies, then as the Opposition, they will not criticize government.
“If they can influence the government to change its policies on many things including education, we will keep quiet, but if the current state continues, we will continue telling the government the truth.”
The response was in relation to his continued criticism of ODM leaders appointed to government, who now say they did not know that being in government was good.
