National Assembly Majority Whip Silvanus Osoro has asked leaders to stop ‘chest-thumbing and shareholding rhetoric’ saying honeymoon time is over and that it is time to work for Kenyans.
The South Mugirango MP said that it is unfair for some people to repeatedly continue insisting on shareholding of the government a year after the 2022 general election.
Osoro said all Kenyans are shareholders in the government because they pay taxes and that it is time leaders started working instead of contentiously reminding others how they won the 2022 polls.
“We cannot start talking about the past tense, the old shares are over, the 2022 shares are over, what people are now planning, and if there are any shares, then it is about 2027 and 2032,” Osoro said on Sunday during an interdenominational service at Shikhulu Primary School.
“This is the time to end chest-thumbing; when you take to the podium, tell Kenyans what we have planned, tell our people that we have employed teachers and other things that we have planned.”
The MP said the Kenya Kwanza politicians should end election hangovers.
“This thing about your shares should end, you remain with your shares but all that we know is that we all pay taxes and are in the government,” he said.
“The day when we used to come here and stand before you as Kenya Kwanza and start chest-thumbing on how we defeated them is over, Kenyans want to see development, electricity, roads, unity and good schools.”
Osoro went ballistic on his colleagues whom he accused of perpetuating the shareholding narrative a year after polls.
Earlier before he rose to speak, Juja MP George Koimburi had referred to Mt Kenya holding more shares in the Kenya Kwanza government even as he asked Western Kenya to plan itself.
“I have listened to you Mheshimiwa Koimburi and I have heard you talk about shares, you should now stop this issue about shares. All Kenyans are in the government. This thing saying that you know our region is about shares should end because all of us Kenyans have shares in Kenya,” Osoro said.
“All of us want to be involved in development. When your MP here moves around asking for development, he is doing so as a Kenyan. The days of the honeymoon are over, the party is over and one year has ended.” BY THE STAR