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SUNDAY, JULY 30, 2017 | National Namanga.
National Super Alliance (Nasa) presidential candidate Raila Odinga has said that if he wins in the forthcoming elections movement across the Kenya-Tanzania border will be easier because he and Tanzanian President John Magufuli are friends.
“(President John Pombe) Magufuli is my friend; I will speak to him and ensure that this border is opened,” Mr Odinga said at the Namanga border post yesterday from where he started a series of roadside campaigns in Kajiado County.
Work permit
He claimed that the current frosty relations between Kenya and Tanzania were caused by “insults hurled by people in Jubilee government”.
Mr Odinga was referring to the current situation at the border town, where Kenyans were thrown out of Tanzania for lack of work permits.
Mediation
Some Kenyans had been locked up and charged in Tanzanian courts for being in the country illegally. The action by the Tanzanian government led to riots and protests on the Kenyan side of the border.
When mediation efforts failed Kenyan immigration authorities in Namanga responded by asking Tanzanians working in Kenya to go back to their country.
This was not the first time Mr Odinga is using President Magufuli’s name in the campaigns. He has been saying in several campaign stops that if elected he will launch an anti-corruption drive just like President Magufuli did in Tanzania. That Mr Odinga, opposition’s presidential flagbearer in the Kenyan elections, is ready to use his friendship with President Magufuli to attract voters speaks of how popular the Tanzanian President is in Kenya.
He gained popularity when he started the war against corruption, embezzlement and laxity in government, just a few days after he was sworn in.
Raila uses friendship with JPM to woo voters
National Super Alliance (Nasa) presidential candidate Raila Odinga has said that if he wins in the forthcoming elections movement across the Kenya-Tanzania border will be easier because he and Tanzanian President John Magufuli are friends.
“(President John Pombe) Magufuli is my friend; I will speak to him and ensure that this border is opened,” Mr Odinga said at the Namanga border post yesterday from where he started a series of roadside campaigns in Kajiado County.
Work permit
He claimed that the current frosty relations between Kenya and Tanzania were caused by “insults hurled by people in Jubilee government”.
Mr Odinga was referring to the current situation at the border town, where Kenyans were thrown out of Tanzania for lack of work permits.
Mediation
Some Kenyans had been locked up and charged in Tanzanian courts for being in the country illegally. The action by the Tanzanian government led to riots and protests on the Kenyan side of the border.
When mediation efforts failed Kenyan immigration authorities in Namanga responded by asking Tanzanians working in Kenya to go back to their country.
This was not the first time Mr Odinga is using President Magufuli’s name in the campaigns. He has been saying in several campaign stops that if elected he will launch an anti-corruption drive just like President Magufuli did in Tanzania. That Mr Odinga, opposition’s presidential flagbearer in the Kenyan elections, is ready to use his friendship with President Magufuli to attract voters speaks of how popular the Tanzanian President is in Kenya.
He gained popularity when he started the war against corruption, embezzlement and laxity in government, just a few days after he was sworn in.
Raila uses friendship with JPM to woo voters
