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Kiraitu abandons Speaker Muturi and endorses Raila


This is what Kiraitu had to say
"I joined the Meru Professionals and Business Community in a meeting with former Prime Minister, Rt Hon Raila Odinga 'Jakom' in a meeting where we deliberated on the interests of the Meru community. As you all know, my mission is to Make Meru Great and ensure that our people are rich and prosperous.

I have become skeptical of political friendships because you see people who haven’t quarreled becoming enemies and enemies of yesterday becoming friends. So I do not want to base politics on personal friendships. We will be bound by interests of our people. We are forming a party that will focus on the interests of the people of Meru and the region so that we can also be in the national political arena.

When our youths are empowered to be employable, when we have good roads, adequate clean water, improved agriculture and much more, these will definitely uplift the livelihoods of our people. This can only be achieved through increased resources in our Counties.

Meru produces miraa and we need modern ways of marketing our precious commodity. We therefore will hold a miraa scientific and commercialization conference next year to see how well we are going to market our miraa as juice and wine through value addition alongside the current markets we have.

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