ODM MPs threaten mass action over talks
The ODM Parliamentary Group has demanded that Parliament be summoned in one week to amend the Constitution to implement the mediation talks’ proposals. The more than 90 MPs warned on Wednesday that if that did not happen, ODM would call for peaceful mass action. The party dismissed PNU’s call that mediation proposals must be constitutional as a ploy to delay decisions.
ODM Secretary-General, Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o, who read the PG’s resolutions at a press conference at Parliament Buildings, said: “All Kenyans know that the Constitution is itself a problem to democratic changes in Kenya.”
He added: “We need to change it to be in tune with the popular demand for democratic governance in our nation.”
Mvita MP, Mr Najib Balala, warned that the party would back radical proposals if PNU did not want to co-operate in the mediation talks. He said that PNU leadership was not serious in the talks, claiming that it only understood the “language of mass action”.
Balala said: “The chief mediator, Mr Kofi Annan, is frustrated by PNU behaviour to scuttle the process. PNU members are frustrating the talks so that ODM can pull out. We want to tell them that we are there to stay.”
East African Standard
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