Raila, Karua speak on UhuRuto gov't 'mistakes' they will avoid
Azimio La Umoja One Kenya coalition party deputy
presidential candidate Martha Karua says should they ascend to power with Raila
Odinga, their administration will avoid the supremacy battles witnessed in the Uhuru-Ruto
Jubilee government.
Karua said the Azimio
government will settle any disagreements that may arise between its top brass
internally, instead of airing the grievances publicly.
Speaking in a joint
TV interview alongside Odinga on Tuesday evening, Karua underscored that an Odinga-led
government will steer clear of the shortcomings that led to the so-called
impasse between President Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto.
"The unseemly
disagreement and taking it to the public, people may differ on how to go about
things that is supposed to be settled in the board room. We will try conduct
ourselves in a way that maintains the respect of the office and demonstrate
respect to the people of Kenya," said Karua.
Kenyatta and Ruto have been on record on multiple occasions publicly trading accusations
over government failures. While Kenyatta faults his deputy for engaging early
campaigns at the expense of his duties, Ruto blames the March 2018 handshake between the
Head-of-State and Odinga for allegedly impeding the Jubilee administration from
effectively delivering services.
On his part, Raila
noted that his government will differ from the Jubilee administration in that
it will introduce a system that will keep track of the progress of devolved
units and how counties are using budgetary allocations to bring development to
their respective regions.
"You don't
have 47 counties and one national government; it is one country and one
government and therefore you need to work together with devolved units and
agree on priorities. You must also have a benchmark in which performance of the
counties can be measured so that you have equal system of service," he
said.
"You must have a way of measuring the performance of county governments and that is the responsibility of the national government we do that we will make the country work for the people of the government."
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