Mr. Martin Ngatia, the Chairman of the Kenya Scandinavia Democratic Movement (KESDEMO) has said that former President Daniel arap Moi should stop preaching rubbish to Kenyans because for 24 years, he presided over a ruthless and dictatorial regime that promoted poverty and suffering of millions of Kenyans.
Reacting to Moi’s directive that some KANU politicians should be expelled from the party because of their links with ODM, Mr. Ngatia said that Moi should be in prison because he is a murderer and an economic criminal who should not be releasing useless statements through the media.
“Moi is a failure and a failure cannot advise any right-minded person”, Mr. Ngatia told Kenya Stockholm Blog.
The KESDEMO Chairman said that it was unfortunate that Moi was pensioned because the amount of money he stole from the tax payer and the enormous amount of wealth he accumulated through theft of public funds should have been recovered by the Kibaki government instead of being protected, provided with bodyguards and given an opportunity to confuse people with useless statements.
“Moi is not a peaceful man neither is he a nationalist as he claims. He is a tribalist and a war monger who governed through dirty tactics of divide and rule”, Mr. Ngatia said.
He told KSB that although Moi pretends to talk for the poor, he protected foreigners and the upper class more than Kenyans during his 24 years of dictatorship. “All crimes he committed during his dictatorship are well documented”, Mr. Ngataia said.
On the question of Moi’s appointment as a “Peace envoy”, by the Kibaki government, Mr. Ngatia said that Moi is not in a position to negotiate any peace talks anywhere because he is responsible for instigating numerous incidences of bloody ethnic cleansing which resulted in the death of thousands of innocent Kenyans during his ruthless dictatorship.
“Over 5,000 Kenyans perished during these attacks while more than half a million Kenyans became internal refugees”, Mr. Ngatia said.
“Kesdemo will continue to advocate for Moi's arrest and prosecution as long as he lives because those who have murdered Kenyans and looted the country's economy should be made to face justice. There should be no mercy or forgiveness to those who are known to have spilled blood like Moi and his former henchmen. They should be brought before the court system and tried”, Mr. Ngatia said.
Commenting on KANU’s role in Kenyan politics, Mr. Ngatia said that Moi should stop propping up KANU because the party is an eye-sore to Kenyans who know the dirty politics of darkness and death the party has been playing for decades.
“KANU is like the Palestinian Liberation Organization which was abandoned by Palestinians in favour of Hamas. Just like PLO which began the Palestinian liberation struggle, KANU has lost contact with the people and millions of Kenyans know this”, Mr. Ngatia said.
The KESDEMO leader also attacked Moi on his failure to solve the problem of landlessness in Kenya. He said that instead of solving the crisis of landlessness, Moi continued to grab vast pieces of land and to bribe people to support him. “He has no moral authority to give advice to anybody”, he said.
“By calling for some KANU members to be expelled from the party because of their affiliation to ODM-Kenya, Moi is dreaming that he is the President of Kenya with Kibaki as his Vice president”, he said.
“Moi may be an elder but elders who are well known criminals should not be respected regardless of their age. If a revolutionary Movement or Party like KESDEMO were to seize power in Kenya, Moi could be crying for mercy, chained for ever behind bars”, Mr. Ngatia said.
Mr. Ngatia also attacked Martha Karua, the Minister for Justice, for absolving Mr. Simon Nyachae from corruption charges.
“Martha Karua has no right to forgive criminals like Simon Nyachae. If Nyachae is clean, then everybody who has grabbed land in Kenya or stolen from State coffers should be clean. This is yet another example of selective justice” he said.
Mr. Ngatia advised ODM-Kenya to fight back whenever Moi opened his mouth to attack the Movement.
“If ODM-Kenya seizes power in Kenya, the new government should ensure that Moi and all those who committed crimes against the Kenyan people are arrested and brought to face justice”, he told Kenya Stockholm Blog.
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