Ruto is insincere on referendum, Orengo

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Siaya senator James Orengo has come out claiming that Deputy President William Ruto is not genuine in his support for a referendum.

According to Senator Orengo, Ruto’s declaration on Saturday that he will support the amendment to the 2010 Constitution, which he vehemently opposed, is insincere.

In his statementy he said, “I don’t think he (Ruto) is sincere. He says he supports, but quickly says he does not support if the agenda is to create positions for the opposition. It has nothing to do with positions, it is about making the systems better. Ruto is not sincere.”

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During a tour of Tharaka Nithi on Saturday, Ruto said he is ready for constitutional changes to help improve Kenyans lives but not to burden them more.

According to DP Ruto, “We have no problem with the referendum. Our problem is hypocrisy and conman-ship, to tell us the referendum was agreed during the handshake, you are lying to us.”

Senator Orengo has now told off Ruto for spreading lies that opposition chief Raila Odinga is interested in creating positions for the opposition leaders.

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While speaking in Mombasa Orengo said, said the push for a referendum has nothing to do with the creation of positions but rather to address the fault lines in the constitution.

He said the DP should go back and look at the Okoa Bill, which was drafted by NASA leadership in the run-up to last year’s general election.

Orengo said in that Bill, a wide range of issues among them devolution in respect to resources allocation, inclusivity in government appointment, changing the electoral justice, and the issue of security in the country were raised.

“We wanted to have counties receiving a higher percentage of resources from the national government. We also wanted to have a just electoral system by strengthening IEBC and generally the issue of security in our country by having police officers adhere to the Bill of Rights.”

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