Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has called out leaders who
only incite the people without giving solutions to the many challenges they
face.
Kindiki insisted that the work of leaders is to offer solutions
to challenges affecting the people.
“The work of leaders is to find solution to problems
affecting the people not to move around inciting members of the public and
offering zero solutions,” he said during a funeral in Elburgon, Molo.
The Deputy President faulted such leaders saying that the
politics of division and violence has previously placed the country into a
dangerous path and it should not be a direction the country takes.
He urged Kenyans to resist such persons because that is old
fashioned politics.
“There’s nothing wrong with politics and we must not all
agree, people are free to hold different political opinion. What we don’t want
is incitement and division because we have been there before and we know how
painful it is to incite the public against each other, to bring division and
violence. The politics of violence, division and incitement are old fashion
politics.
“We must resist as a country. Those forming political
parties there is no problem but stop saying the party belongs this community or
religion it will bring division. Our democracy must mature.”
Kindiki hailed the ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA)
saying that it believes in the ideology of economic transformation of the
country.
He said this is being done through programs that promote
economic empowerment from the bottom upwards.
The DP called on all other parties to bring forth their plans
if at all they are interested in having healthy dialogue about the development
and future of the country.
He added that any political formations established on the
basis of ethnicity and division will only derail Kenya prosperity.
“The other 91 political parties have the duty to put forward
their policy propositions to facilitate a healthy national discourse on Kenya’s
future. Political formations established on the foundations of hate,
parochialism or ethnic chauvinism only serve to distract Kenya’s push towards
prosperity and viability,” Kindiki added.