Raila faults “angry” Uhuru’s decision to withdraw troops from South Sudan

Cord leader Raila Odinga has said that President acted unilaterally and out of anger in his decision to withdraw the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) from its UN peace keeping mission in South Sudan (Unmiss).
Through a statement posted on his website, Raila said President Uhuru has lately been displaying strange acts of rage and anger locally, taking this to the global stage, making decisions based on anger and emotion to the possible grave damage to Kenya.
Uhuru last week announced that Kenya would withdraw its troops from South Sudan after the UN sacked Lt-Gen Johnson Ondieki as the head of Unmiss.
This week, the first batch of the soldiers arrived in Kenya.
Raila said.
 
He termed the action as ill-advised and “cheap” on the part of the government to claim that some people were not happy with an African commander at the helm of the UN force.
Raila said that there was a diplomatic and systematic failure by the government after it emerged that Deputy President William Ruto had been kept in the dark when he went to the recent UN General Assembly in New York about the inquiry that eventually led to Lt-Gen Ondieki’s dismissal.
He further pointed out that the unilateral actions by the President were pointers to intentions to overrun the Constitution, institute personal rule and take a country to a dictatorship and rule by decree and urged Kenyans not to allow that to happen.