From: JEFF
Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:10 AM

BY JEFF OTIENO

Combative Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli has declared that he has no ambition to aspire for Presidency come 2012.

Speaking to the press on telephone the Cotu Secretary General said the main priority of Cotu is to ensure that reforms are achieved within a short time frame.

Atwoli who has lined up rallies across the country’s major towns to agitate for reforms, was early this week put on the spot light in a section of the press by a group alleging to be affiliated to the workers body who distanced themselves from his current reform crusade saying they were never consulted.

“I’ve no time for paper tigers, masquaraders and hirelings who are being used by anti reformists to frustrate Kenyans not to get a new constitution” Atwoli thundered.

The said group are also reported to have questioned the funding of the big rallies which he also dismissed as “cheap”.

“Cotu is a vibrant outfit with genuine and committed members who are contributors and everything else we are currently engaged in was sanctioned by relevant organs and therefore whoever is questioning legitimacy of our pursuit should be treated as an outsider paid to derail our course which to me is a game in futility since you cannot stop river Nile from flowing” he quipped.

“The dirty tactics of anti reformists are known in this country and Kenyans should be prepared for blackmail, diversionary tactics and intimidation from the said clique”, he said during the interview.

“Currently they’ve put me under microscope but I want to tell them theyre wasting their time, I remain undeterred until Kenyans get a new constitution” he added.

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