Raila leads Nasa brigade in Narok vote hunt

National Super Alliance (Nasa) presidential candidate Raila Odinga has kicked off a two-day campaign tour of Narok accompanied by the Opposition pentagon members.

The Nasa brigade made its first stop at Naroosura market in Narok West where they addressed their supporters before heading to Enoosaen in Kilgoris and later Emurrua Dikir where Mr Odinga is expected to endorse area MP Johanna Ng’eno for a second term.

On Thursday, Mr Odinga will lead the Nasa Pentagon team of himself, Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi, Isaac Ruto and Moses Wetang’ula, to a rally at Ngosuani market and later at Olchorro in Narok North before holding a mega rally in Narok Town in the afternoon.

The Nasa campaign tour came at the backdrop of a unity test facing its county membership after Chama Cha Mashinani (CCM) gubernatorial candidate Patrick Ntutu and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) candidate for the seat Joseph Tiampati ole Musuni failed to agree on who among them should shelve his bid and support the other to face the incumbent Samuel Tunai of Jubilee.

FALSE PROMISES

In 2013, President Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr Odinga split the Kajiado and Narok votes by nearly a half in a hotly contested race.

Maasai land rights, historical injustices, marginalisation and the freshly launched Nasa manifesto have dominated speeches so far made by the opposition leadership.

Addressing Nasa supporters at Naroosura market, Mr Odinga said Jubilee has cheated Kenyans for the time it has been in power and given false promises.

“It is a must for all of us to come together and send them home,” he said.

He added that a Nasa administration will offer market for livestock and its products.

“We will give the pastoralist community livestock insurance. The Jubilee government has gone down history for shooting Maasai community’s livestock in Laikipia.

POLICE SERVICE

“We will provide hay and water to livestock during drought and hard times like experienced in Laikipia,” he said.

He said in line with the Nasa manifesto launched on Tuesday evening, a Nasa administration will provide free education from nursery to university should it be elected. He said education had been given proper attention.

He said police would be well remunerated and thus bring to an end the era of bribe taking.

“We will make it a police service not a police force,” Mr Odinga said.

Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto said Nasa’s agenda was to make sure that devolution and the rights of the Maasais are protected.

SIX-PIECE

“We as Nasa we want to make sure that the rights of the Maasais are respected, their land protected, their children go to school. This will only be possible if you vote in Raila,” he said.

“Mr Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, Moses Wetang’ula and me...our record is clear; tumetosha (we are up to task),” he stated.

Mr Wetang’ula said the Maasai community was one of the most marginalised communities in the country urging the locals to send Jubilee home.

“Narok voted Raila in 2013. Let us vote a six-piece to make sure what we plan in our manifesto reaches the people,” said Mr Musyoka adding that time for change had come.