Monday, 18 July 2016

WE SHALL DEMONSTRATE AGAIN;CLAIMS RAILA ODINGA

   
CORD’s leader Raila Odinga has threatened to stage a demo if Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi is not allowed back to parliament.The demo is to be held on Wednesday ,July 20 if speaker Justin Muturi does not admit Wandayi by tomorrow Tuesday,19.
According to the standard ,Raila issued speaker Justin Muturi an ultimatum  of approximately 24 hours to retract hiss directive that saw Opiyo kicked out of Parliament. He went ahead to say that Muturi did not obey the court’s order to lift the ban against Wandayi and admit him back to parliament.
               “I have been to parliament for twenty years and have never seen such a behavior as exhibited by Muturi.If Wandayi is still rejected
by tomorrow , Tuesday , July 19 we will go to the naked application of diplomacy.” Said Odinga.
Opiyo Wandayi was sent out of parliament for eleven months after he took part in plans to interrupt president Uhuru Kenyatta’s state of the union address in parliament on March 16 , 2016.He will then be admitted back in February next year.Among those who were kicked out of the house were MP John Mbadi,Simba Arati, T.J Kajwang ,Mbita’s Milly Odhiambo , Nyando’s Fred Outa  and Homa Bay’s Women Representative Gladys Wanga.
CORD leader is set to interrupt the ongoing 14th United Nations conference on trade and development with demonstrations should parliament not lift the ban placed on Wandayi.Currently more than 10,000delegates from across the world are attending the conference in Nairobi .The conference was scheduled for a week and begun on 17th July.

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