Veteran opposition politician and leader of the National Super Alliance, Raila Odinga has revealed his next course of action after the polls in which he did not participate. He has launched a National Resistance Movement.
“We have a parliamentary wing. As you know, we have members of the National Assembly and members of the Senate. Now, we are creating another wing, which is the resistance movement. This is basically going to be involved in civil disobedience, civil resistance, not an armed resistance. We are going to use all the legal and constitutional means to put pressure on this government to do what we wanted to do,” Odinga told CNN on Friday.
The choice of name for his political movement has evoked mixed feelings that he could be thinking of an armed resistance like that which was led by Yoweri Museveni in Uganda.
In response to these fears, Raila Odinga said, “We are going to use legal means. As you know, our Constitution allows for picketing, for striking, for peaceful processions, for protesting and so on. So, we have several other means that are legal and constitutional at our disposal, which we will bring into play to put pressure on this government.”
