• Atwoli spoke at Bukhungu Stadium in Kakamega during an Embrace Kenya rally over the weekend.
• The team consists of women leaders in Parliament and Senate who support the BBI task force formed by Uhuru and ODM leader Raila Odinga.
Kenya's next president will come from leaders who support the Building the Bridges Initiative, Cotu secretary general Francis Atwoli has said.
Atwoli said that the group of politicians who have embarked on early campaigns is wasting their time and resources.
“The people who will produce the President are these ones seated here today. This Team Embrace is going to deliver the next President of the Republic of Kenya" Atwoli said
He spoke at Bukhungu Stadium in Kakamega during an Embrace Kenya rally over the weekend.
The team consists of women leaders in Parliament and Senate who support the BBI task force formed by Uhuru and ODM leader Raila Odinga.
Atwoli said that women should not be taken for granted because it was a woman who triggered the fight for independence.
"In 1920 a woman called Mama Nyambura slapped the white police inspector and that is what triggered the fight for the independence that we are enjoying now,” he said
He criticised the Thirdway Alliance leader Ekuru Aukot’s Punguza Mizigo Bill saying it would deny women their rightful place in leadership.
Atwoli said that women are not a burden and that they should be respected for the role they play in society.
“I was the first person to say that we should amend the Constitution but we never said that the position of woman representatives should be scrapped off,” he said.
The Cotu boss said women should be given equal opportunities to contest all elective positions in the country.
Atwoli said that leaders who support the building bridges initiative have the interest of the country at heart.
He said that constitutional amendments must be done in order to bring peace in this country.
The unionist called upon Kenyans to support Uhuru and Raila in their fight against corruption.
(edited by O. Owino)