US President Barack Obama met Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) leaders to discuss various issues affecting the country but also took them to task on their performance when they served in government.
Mr Obama held discussions with the Opposition chiefs led by CORD leaders Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, Moses Wetangula and Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua. The leaders are said to have discussed the runaway **********, electoral reforms, tribalism and ethnic exclusivity, reports The Standard.
The meeting took place at the VVIP Lounge at the Safaricom Sports Arena and lasted more than half an **ur. But minutes after the meeting, the US President lifted the veil of hypocrisy of some of the leaders.
Mr Obama told a civil society forum at Kenyatta University that one of the Opposition leaders pleaded with him to press the Kenyan government harder on some undisclosed governance issues. He did not, **wever, disclose w** between the four leaders made the request.
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“I won’t tell you which one,” he said before complaining, “Everyone when they are not in power want the US Government to press the (Kenya) Government in power on this or that issue, but I remember when you were in power you told us (the US Government) to mind our own business…”
Mr Obama said he told the Opposition leaders that the US government w*** deal with the “legitimate government” which is in place but w*** also “listen to everyone else”, including opposition groups.
CORD has been critical in the manner President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee administration has been ha***ing the dragon of **********. CORD co-principal and Senate Minority Leader Wetangula disclosed that their meeting with President Obama also centred on insecurity brought about by the Al-******* **********, profiling of communities and individuals in *** on ****** and gender issues.
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