I won’t form any pre-election coalition with any party-Justin Muturi

The Democratic Party has endorsed National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi’s presidential bid while also unveiling him as the party leader.

Joseph Munyao who was party leader, stepped down for Muturi and was named as the patron of the outfit.

Munyao termed Muturi as an energetic leader who holds the vision of the country at heart and is ready to change its politics.

“We have heard him and we believe in his transformative agenda for the country. We have accorded him our support as party presidential candidate,” he said.

The event was attended by Nairobi Senator Johnstone Sakaja, Uhuru’s cousin captain Kungu Muigai and party officials.

Addressing the delegates at Bomas of Kenya, Justin Muturi said he is not ready to join hands with any of the coalitions in the country.

He condemned them for advocating on the politics of hatred saying it might plunge the country into violence if leaders fail to change the tactics.

Muturi said none of the existing coalition means well for the country and Kenyans should make decisions by not voting them in August election.

“Statistics have shown that the corrupt individuals are only 30per cent of the population, the remaining 70 per cent are not and most of them detest it. We need to activate this 70 per cent and they become the eyes, ears and the police force that will stop the corruption,” he said.

Muturi vowed to work with the leadership of the democratic party and ensure the sanity of politics in the country is restored.

He also vowed to fight corruption once elected as president.

“We have spent most of our resources and efforts in investigating, arresting, prosecuting and recovering stolen assets, this is not enough, we need to reduce and stop the incidences of corruption to have meaningful gain in this fight,” Muturi said at Bomas of Kenya.

He further promised to work on agricultural, health, education and financial reforms to liberate the country from bad policies that are discriminating against the common wananchi.

“I’m ready to liberate my people from bad leadership, I have been tried and tested and my leadership skills and principles are known and thus Kenyans should give me a chance to lead them,” he said.

Muturi said once elected the president, one of the major reforms he will do is to scrap the youth ministry as its discriminative while also translating the Helb loan issued to students as grants.

He said majority of Kenyans are youths and thus they should be constituted in all ministries.

He said the Democratic Party government will work with the counties to ensure Kenyans get the services they deserve.

Muturi said the Jubilee administration has made the lives of Kenyans difficult unlike where retired President Mwai Kibaki left it.

“Who is happy with the Jubilee government? he posed. Once elected president, I will scrap this thing you called Fuliza by Safaricom, it has put so many youths into financial problems and that is why you will hear people tell you usitume pesa kwa hii number (don’t send money to this number),” Muturi said.

The speaker warned leaders who are calling for the formation of a one-party state citing the frustration of party leaders who dissolved their parties to form the Jubilee party in 2017.

He said the democratic rights of the country must be exercised.