By: JEFF OTIENO
date Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:22 AM

COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli has announced that he has scheduled rallies across the country to push the coalition government to give Kenyans a new constitution.

Speaking to the press in Kisumu today, Atwoli said, “The two principles President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga seems not to be serious”, and are abusing the intelligence of Kenyans. “Kibaki and Raila have got the capacity to give Kenyans the much yawned constitution within a blink of an eye but unfortunately they are cagey”, he posed.

This weekend the COTU Secretary General and his brigades will go to Machakos town for a rally to agitate for comprehensive reforms. The following weekend they will go to Nyeri, Embu,Kisumu, Nakuru among other major towns before they conclude with what is expected to be the mother of all the rallies at Muliro gardens in Kakamega on 26th December 2009.

On raging debate of post election violence suspects, Atwoli said, the two principles should handle the matter with caution or else they will plunge the country into chaos as witnessed in the last General Elections.

“If it is a question of going to the Hague then Kibaki and Raila should lead the pack” Atwoli said during the interview. “How genuine are we to victimize small people yet leave the two who made Kenyans to go for each others throat”, he quipped.

On whether he is interested to contest the Presidency in 2012 as being rumoured, he remained none committal. His critics have been reading political maneuvers in his current vigorous advocacy to make Kenyans have a new constitution before April next year.

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subject COTU NOW LINES UP COUNTRY WIDE RALLIES TO PUSH FOR REFORMS