{"id":698,"date":"2024-02-15T07:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T07:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/successfully-ignored-raila-fires-back-at-wetangula-for-bashing-him\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T07:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T07:04:05","slug":"successfully-ignored-raila-fires-back-at-wetangula-for-bashing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/successfully-ignored-raila-fires-back-at-wetangula-for-bashing-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Successfully ignored! Raila fires back at Wetangula for bashing him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 15 \u2013 Opposition Leader Raila Odinga has hit back at National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula for terming his critic remarks against him as \u2018dirty politics and misleading\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through his lawyer Paul Mwangi, Odinga told off the National Assembly Speaker saying it\u2019s was cowardly for the Office of the Speaker to issue ignorant statements against him and hide behind institutional titles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall ignore this and successfully ignore unfortunate adolescent tenor for a communication coming from such a high office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, The Azimio La Umoja Leader tore into Wetangula\u2019s statement where he defended his constitutional obligation to participate in State House events involving the enactment of bills into law.<\/p>\n<p>Wetangula had defended his involvement in the process arguing that he is obligated by law to participate in such process, citing the United States system as a reference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe phrase \u2018formally presenting the Bills for assent to the President\u2019 which are relied on by the statement cannot be interpreted to mean walking over to State House and physically handing over the document to the President,\u201d Odinga said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is ridiculous and it is scandalous for the statement to even suggest that the Constitution meant so.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The ODM Leader explained the provision for referring the Bill to the President doesn\u2019t mean the Speaker should be in physical attendance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe actual words used by the Constitution are \u2018refer the Bill to the President for assent.\u2019 No conveyance of the person of the Speaker bearing the legislative instrument is contemplated,\u201d Odinga noted.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Wetangula\u2019s challenge of the Court of Appeal\u2019s decision on Finance Act of 2023,Odinga advised Speaker Wetangula to stop focusing on emotional contestation and instead focus on sealing loopholes in the legislative process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not about an emotional contestation but rather properly identifying and upholding the public interest. Kenya would be better served by your officers engaging time and other resources in ensuring that the legislative process does not again end up being impeached by courts of law,\u201d Odinga said through his lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>He added; \u201cFor a State organ to pursue public litigation to a bitter end for the obvious purpose of bolstering its public image is what we have referred to above as adolescent;\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 15 \u2013 Opposition Leader Raila Odinga has hit back at National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula for terming his critic remarks against him as \u2018dirty politics and misleading\u2019. 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