“Hii Baringo ni county ingine ikona umaskini zaidi, county kavu inakaa kama Kitui na wanakataa BBI, na hao ni MCAs,’’ Raymond said.
The remarks have sparked a lot of reaction from the Baringo MCAs most of whom have faulted Raymond for making such remarks yet his father was president for 24 years and his brother Gideon Moi serving as the county senator.
“I want to give you a synopsis of Baringo County. In the year 1955 to 1963 former president Moi represented us in the legislative counsel, from 1963 to 2002 he was MP for Baringo Central. From 2002 to 2007, Gideon Moi was the MP for Baringo Central. His son, Gideon Moi, went on to be Baringo senator,†an MCA said.
“All the leadership has been in the Moi family. Raymond has become an MP in Rongai and most of the people in Rongai are from Baringo. All this leadership has been in the Moi family, then why are people from Baringo poor? now his son has the guts to say Baringo is poor, we are poor because of the Moi family,†he added.
Some have accused the Moi family of intentionally making the county poor to enable them rule.
“I want to tell Raymond Moi to respect us. I don’t know whether BBI was their property and if that is the reason he is verbally assaulting us now that we have rejected BBI. We are sober and we decided we don’t want BBI, so stop attacking us verbally. Let us practise our democratic right,†another MCA added.
Baringo County became the first county to reject the BBI Referendum Bill on Thursday, February 11. The MCAs rejected the Bill after a chaotic debate session that saw the MCAs engage in a physical fight.
The fight erupted from differences of opinion as legislators debated the BBI Referendum which is currently being debated by the county assemblies.
KANU members supported the passing of the Bill, while Jubilee members affiliated to Deputy President William Ruto rejected it.
KANU Party Leader Gideon Moi has been pushing for the BBI Bill to be passed, while Ruto has been critical of its proposals.
Raymond Moi during a tour to Njoro, Nakuru County, urged Baringo people not to re-elect the current MCAs in the coming elections as a way of punishing them for rejecting BBI.
Source: KENYAGIST.COM
