Keep Your Mouth Shut- Raila Attacks Meg Whitman Again [VIDEO]

Azimio la Umoja leader, Raila Odinga on Thursday, August 17 rekindled his verbal feud with United States (US) Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman regarding her remarks terming the 2022 elections as the most credible Kenya has ever had.

Speaking during the Devolution Conference in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County, the former Prime Minister termed Whitman a rogue ambassador who was meddling with Kenyan affairs on behalf of the US.

Raila threatened to push for her recalled by the government of her home country if she kept poking her nose into Kenyan politics over and over again.

"I want to tell the rogue ambassador Kenya is not the United States or a colony of the United States. Keep your mouth shut while here otherwise we will call for your recall back to your country,” said Raila.

Raila also criticised Whitman for her statements regarding the anti-government protests, arguing that the truce talks currently ongoing between him and President William Ruto emerged as a result of the protests.

He also termed the protests as a good omen protected in the Constitution which led to significant developments in the country, including devolution.

"If maandamano can led to a dialogue between Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung'wah and Kalonzo Musyoka, then everything is good with maandamano," he stated.

During her presentation at the devolution conference, Whitman praised the 2022 polls as the most credible in Kenya's history, backing her sentiments with findings by analysts and commentators.

She also hailed the subsequent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the election of Ruto as President as a testament to the free and fair process.

“I arrived in Kenya days before the August 2022 General Election; what I witnessed was nothing short of remarkable. Kenya held, what many analysts and commentators say, was the free-est, fairest and most credible election in Kenyan history,” Whitman expressed.

“The elections were observed by international and local organizations, and the results were upheld by the Kenyan Supreme Court, and power was transferred orderly and peacefully.”

Siaya Senator Oburu Odinga earlier stated it was insensitive for the US Ambassador to talk about democracy in Kenya after the current administration allegedly denied the opposition the right to demonstrate through making it a criminal act, stating that the right to demonstrate in the Constitution was even borrowed from the American constitution.

It is the second time Raila is turning his guns on Whitman regarding the 2022 elections and back on Friday, March 31, he defended the bold move by the four commissioners who had been terminated from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to reject the 2022 presidential election results.

At the time, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader had challenged Whitman's take on four out of six members of an electoral commission rejecting election results in a US setting.

"The election commission consisted of seven members, the chairman and another member saying yes and four members saying no. I asked her that if that happened in America, that four members of the electoral institution rejected the results and two accepted them, would it be considered a free and fair election?" the former Prime Minister posed.