Photo: UNDP Uhuru Kenyatta will not be able to participate in the next presidential debate scheduled for next week, Monday.
The team behind the Jubilee presidential candidate have written to the organizing committee claiming that that he was 'unfairly treated' in the first debate on February 11th.
In the letter, the team has said that the moderators focused almost exclusively on Uhuru's and his running mate William Ruto's pending trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and failed to address cases of scandal that the other presidential candidates were allegedly involved in.
Team Uhuru says that the moderators "obsession" with the ICC "created a state upon which the other candidates could gang up and ruthlessly attack Uhuru Kenyatta as if they were themselves above both blame and suspicion"
The Team said that the moderators should have also asked Prime Minister Raila Odinga about the Triton, Maize and Kazi kwa Vijana scandals.
Team Uhuru said that Safina presidential candidate Paul Muite " should not have been let off the hook without being pressed to give a convincing explanation over the scrupulously documented allegations of him having received a Sh20 million bribe from the architect ofthe Goldenberg scam, Kamlesh Pattni, in the 1990s; information brought into the public domain by Pattni himself and confirmed by a senior business associate of Muite's at the time," and that "Restore and Build Kenya Presidential Candidate James Ole Kiyapi should have been put on his defense over the misappropriation of the Free Primary and Free Day Secondary Education funds during his tenure as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education,"
Team Uhuru further said the moderators should have confronted Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi over his alleged involvement in the Goldenberg Scandal and Peter Kenneth over "financial improprieties while at the helm of both the KFF and Kenya Re,"
Adding that Martha Karua's "moral standing and self- declared commitment to family values should have been scrutinized and weighed against allegation of moral impropriety and of probity, all of which are in the public domain," Team Uhuru further accused the organizers of "favouritism, bias and victimization."
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I agree with the UHURU Campaign team.Let Jubilee spend time in a more productive manner rather than wasting energies on guided talk baptised as debate and handled by biased moderators.This debate does not add value to the team or to supporters of the Jubilee.Focus is the key work in the remaining days....
We had eight people facing the firing squad, but only one ended up with all the fatal bullets. Luckily he survived. In my mind I am sure these journalists/ people Were not so naive as not to know that their were other issues haunting other Candidates the white elephant kavi Kwa Vijana, Kenya RE, Goldenberg scandal, Mortuary scandals, Triton scandal, Molasses corruption and the list is endless. It was never genuine, absolutely incredible and unprofessional, our media and their personalities have to come of age so as to do Kenya proud and earn respect. Right now they eluded the entire purposes of the debate to evaluate all candidates equally so that Kenyans can judge. They never learn, like 2007, they take sides again to polarise the country again.Linus Kaikai and Julie Gichuru WHAT A SHAME !
Uhuru should take it positively in sense that when people need to hear more from you as a candidate,they are confident of your leadership.For me personally i was impressed of the best answers Uhuru gave on the hague case.I will be so puntual for monday debate just because of UHURU so friendly and confident.