Raila Wants Government to Implement the NADCO Report
Kilifi Senator Stewart Madzayo (far Left) Rt Hon Raila Odinga (second left) Kaloleni member of Parliament Paul Katana (Second Right) and Kilifi County Governor Gideon Mung'aro (first Right) walking in Malindi. (Photo By Ronald Ngoba)
By Ronald Ngoba
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Azimio la Umoja party leader Raila Odinga wants the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) report implemented if he is to continue his cooperation with President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza government.
Addressing journalists after meeting Kilifi ODM leaders at Billionaires Resort Hotel in Malindi town, Odinga said the implementation of the report would address the problems facing the country.
“I’m consulting all my party members and getting their views and concerns and we find solutions to the problems bedeviling the country such as high cost of living, the SHA problems, abductions and devolution struggles and this are the things we want the government to address,” he said.
Just like elsewhere the ODM leader has visited for his weeklong consultations, the Kilifi party luminaries gave their boss the nod to work with the KKA administration, but demanding for accountability and compensation of families of people who died during the 2023 Azimio protests and the 2024 anti-finance bill protests.
Kilifi County ODM chairman and County Assembly speaker Teddy Mwambire, Governor Gideon Mung’aro and his deputy Flora Chibule, Senator Steward Madzayo, Kaloleni MP Paul Katana, Kilifi County woman Representative Getrude Mbeyu and several MCAs and party delegates received Odinga.
Their boss jetted in the country after losing the AUC seat and has actively demanded action from the government seeking compensation for the demonstrators who lost their lives during the 2023 Azimio protests and the 2024 Anti-finance Bill protests.
In his address, Governor Mung’aro said that counties were still struggling since most devolved functions had been retained at the national.
“We have had a meeting with our party leader and we have resolved to continue pushing for the implementation of the NADCO report because Kenya is for everyone and we have given our party leader the mandate to lead the course,” he said.
Senator Madzayo called on the government to give families of those who died during the two protests under government officers and those who lost their livelihoods after getting life-threatening injuries be compensated so that they could feel that they were fighting for justice.
“Those who were rendered hopeless and lost their livelihoods must be compensated fully before we can move forward and on the issue of abductions, they must stop.
