Wednesday, September 14, 2022 –New Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah has exposed Azimio la Umoja leadership for failing to fund his petition at the Supreme Court over their lost presidential contest.
Speaking on Citizen Tv’s JKL show with Jeff Koinange on Wednesday September 14 night, Omtatah divulged that he tried to seek financial support from Azimio la Umoja leadership to help support his petition but they couldn’t be moved.
“It did cost me but I believed in it. I paid roughly sh 1.6 million to prosecute that case. I tried to get money from Azimio they couldn’t give me. But because I was convicted I had to use my own money,” he told Jeff Koinange.
He went on to state that his fight for justice to all is a self-conviction exercise that he feels must be accomplished every day in the wake of lawlessness.
“The power of saying no is something that I take seriously. If I think something is wrong and I reflect on it and form a clean conscience on it, I say no. My activism has largely been one of saying no to excesses,” he added.
Asked why he has been poking his nose into matters that are away from his Busia County, the self-made public litigant answered that he serves the country and not Busia area lone.
“I am a senator of the Republic of Kenya, elected by the people of Busia. I am not a senator of Busia. Busia is my home county, the county that elected me. The oath I took did not have the word Busia in it,” he said in response.
Mr. Omtatah, however, revealed he is praying for the present president so that he can do justice to the people of Kenya; and for the losers, all that has gone on in elections is now water under the bridge.
