Sifuna responds to Malema over Raila criticism

By Peter Ochieng 

ODM party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna has hit out at South Africa's opposition leader, Julius Malema for criticizing Azimio leader, Raila Odinga.

On Saturday, Malema called out Odinga for organising demonstrations, aimed at destabilising the country.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader said President William Ruto was democratically elected, during the August, 2022 polls.

He said that he "will not allow" the former prime minister to disrupt Kenya, through protests.

“We want to make a call to Kenya, especially to comrade Raila Odinga; stop doing what you are doing. Do not disrupt Kenya, we need peace in Kenya. The president, William Ruto was democratically elected and I will not allow you to use the people to disrupt the peace in Kenya," Malema stated.

In a rejoinder, Sifuna who doubles up as the Nairobi Senator said the EFF party leader is ignorant of Kenya's politics.

“It is clear that Comrade Malema, watching Kenya from a distance, is not familiar with the delicate socio-political fault lines in our nation, and makes the faulty assumption that his approach in fighting injustices in South Africa can be replicated here."

He claimed Kenya is a 'dictatorship, falsely basking in the sun of democracy.'

“If he was seized of the facts, he would know that Kenya is largely a dictatorship falsely basking in the sun of democracy, in which nearly all elections since 2007 have been fraudulent, and where the wrong president has been sworn in each time."

“If Comrade Malema had bothered to look beyond the Kenya Kwanza regime propaganda, he would know that the recent protests in Kenya were against obscenely high taxes, rising cost of living and government refusal to listen to the people. I have no doubt that if Malema was Kenyan, his red army would have joined us in their numbers on the streets, similar to what they recently did in South Africa," added Sifuna.

He invited Malema to Kenya, so that "I can personally take him on a tour of our country so that he understands that we fight for the same things he does."