Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung'wah has dismissed claims by Azimio La Umoja leader Raila Odinga that the state is after assassinating him.
In a presser after the police disrupted the protests on Thursday, March 30, Raila said seven gunshots were aimed at him by people he said were under the instructions of the country's top leadership.
Reacting to the claims, Ichung'wah is also the majority leader in the National Assembly said the government was not interested in the former prime minister's life given his age.
"No one is interested in the life of Raila Odinga. He is ruining his own life," said Ichung'wah.
The lawmaker further stated that the ODM leader had transitioned from being a statesman to a "hired mercenary out to blackmail a legitimately elected government".
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Ichung'wah urged the government to take on Raila and his crew which he said is after causing chaos and disrupt Kenyans' businesses.
The lawmaker was speaking in Kakamega where he was among the attendees of a church fundraiser; also in attendance was Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi. Kakamega governor Fernandes Barasa and a host of other leaders.
Even with the vitriol from the side of the government, the opposition leader has vowed to continue with his mass action protests, promising to hold a majority one on Monday, April 3.
At the centre of Raila's call for mass action is the quest to have the cost of living reduced, electoral justice and the reconstitution of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
With the former prime minister in the terrain are other Azimio La Umoja luminaries comprising Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka, Narc Kenya's Martha Karua, Eugene Wamalwa of DAP-K and George Wajackoyah of the Roots Party.
The mass action was inaugurated on March 20, with Raila declaring they would be bi-weekly; every Monday and Thursday.
