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Garissa Women Representative Anab Gure has lashed out at the TeamEembrace Kenya accusing them of propagating divisive politics instead of coming up with agenda(s) that would better the lives of Kenyans.
Anab took issue with the leaders who spoke over the weekend in Garissa for using the forum to attack National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale instead of engaging the residents on issues that touch on their daily lives.
“I watched on their speeches on social media and read the same in local dailies on how speaker after speaker used most of the time to attack Duale in his backyard. They came to Garissa with only one agenda and that is attack Duale and nothing more,” Anab said.
On a phone interview, Anab said despite the embrace Kenya team purporting to be for peace and development their wording and utterances are far from it.
“We need to stop this hypocrisy for once. We should stop preaching water yet you are drinking wine. Team embrace should stop misleading Kenyans and instead offer solutions to the problems bedevilling the common mwananchi,” she added.
She lashed out at her Wajir counterpart Fatuma Gedi who was the defacto’ team leader during the Garissa meeting saying that it was ironical that the women rep was talking of embrace yet she had failed to market the same in her county.
“It is in public domain that Gedi and legislators from Wajir are not in good books. How does she come to Garissa to talk of unity when she is not practising the same back home?” she said.
Anab who is a member of the Inua Mama initiative said her team led by Kandara MP Alice Wahome has a well laid down programme on how to uplift the welfare of women at the grassroots level.
The two women groupings that draw its members from ruling Jubilee party and the opposition have upped stakes and opened a new realm of political confrontation believed to be leaning towards Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga handshake and Deputy President William Ruto.
While embrace is for the handshake and the BBI, Inua mama is largely seen to be fronting for Ruto’s 2022 presidential bid.
During the Garissa meeting, the over 30 women leaders said that they want to support the handshake and help President Uhuru Kenyatta achieve his Big Four agenda by uniting Kenyans by working closely with former prime minister Raila Odinga.
In July Inua Mama team was in Garissa where they reiterated that their focus to empower women and the youth at the grassroots who have fewer opportunities economic empowerment as opposed to their male counterparts.