Raila will irritate Ruto until he snaps - Ngunyi

"Then Raila will dare him to ...Do what he does when he gets annoyed."

In Summary
  • Ngunyi added that the mass action scheduled for March 20, is only the beginning of the plan to irritate Ruto. 
  • "Babaman has 50 years of experience in nuisance politics. Ruto is of choleric temper and easy to irritate," he said in a statement on Thursday.
Political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi
Political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi

Political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi has said chief opposition leader Raila Odinga will carry on with his "nuisance", until President William Ruto "snaps".

Ngunyi added that the mass action scheduled for March 20, is only the beginning of the plan to irritate Ruto. 

"Babaman has 50 years of experience in nuisance politics. Ruto is of choleric temper and easy to irritate," he said in a tweet on Thursday.

"Babaman will irritate Ruto until he snaps. Then Raila will dare him to "...Do what he does when he gets annoyed". 20th of March is just the beginning."

In his push-back plan on the government that he terms as "illegitimate", Raila announced the mass action on Monday. 

On Thursday last week, he launched the Movement for Defence of Democracy (MDD) and has been rallying his supporters to pour on the streets on Monday, March 20 for the mass action.

The call came after a 14-day ultimatum to the government to lower the cost of living and open the IEBC servers, to ascertain who won the polls. 

"Those 14 days lapsed last midnight with Kenya Kwanza having done absolutely nothing. Today, we make good our promise to Ruto and his illegitimate Kenya Kwanza regime. We unleash the people's power for action and launch the Movement for Defence of Democracy," he said while speaking in Nairobi.

"We also urge the victims of retrogressive policies of this illegitimate regime including workers, doctors, teachers, nurses, lecturers, students and the Business community to join this political revolution and movement for change. We are stronger together," he said.

Commenting on the announcement, Ruto urged Raila to liaise with the police on the security of Kenyans during the protests.

He said the government was not going to interfere with the demonstrations. 

"We have no problem with you organising demonstrations but please it is your responsibility to work with the police to make sure that the rest of the citizens of Kenya, their lives are not disrupted, their property is not destroyed, and their business is not affected and they can go to work (then) you can carry out your demonstrations," Ruto said on Wednesday. 

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