Mt Kenya region cannot afford to lose the fight on the push for one man one vote one shilling - Wamatangi - video Dailymotion

Governor Kimani Wamatangi has said that the Mt Kenya region cannot afford to lose the fight on the push for one man one vote one shilling.

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00:00 Your Excellency, we would be the most foolish people, and we are not because you are there.

00:08 If the opportunity that God has given us as the people of Montenegro region to make sure

00:15 that we can redeem ourselves as a region, because we have the history from 1978 onwards

00:24 and what happened to this region.

00:26 But then God gave us the opportunity, gave us a president who loves us.

00:32 And now, Your Excellency, we also have a team led by yourself and ourselves that is aware.

00:41 What I would want to say, I started in Parliament when I was Senator, the one man, one vote,

00:48 one shilling fight.

00:51 And I want to declare here this morning, Your Excellency, that that fight cannot be lost.

00:57 And this is our time, Your Excellency, to ensure that we pick it up as the people of

01:02 Mount Kenya region.

01:04 If we lose that fight at this time, if we lose that push, and I want to urge my colleagues

01:10 all the way from the Rakanithi, all the way down through all our counties, up to here

01:15 in Cambu, where you border Nairobi, that we will never be forgiven by generations if we

01:22 use this opportunity to promote inter-boundary and personal conflicts.

01:30 That instead of joining together to change this country and to change this region, that

01:38 we waste and squander the opportunity and fail to deliver on the vision and the wishes

01:43 of our people.

01:45 I want to say, Your Excellency, as I sit down, that we have faith because of the position

01:51 you have taken and the position the President has taken.

01:55 And so we have a big challenge in our hands, ourselves as leaders, that if we choose to

02:00 use this opportunity to shadow box between ourselves, to promote small conflict between

02:07 ourselves, that will be the spectacle of the country, then we can only blame ourselves.

02:14 God bless Kenya.

02:16 God bless Cambu County.

02:19 God bless the people of Mount Kenya region.

02:23 And I know this opportunity, if we take it the way we should, that we are going to change

02:27 this country.

02:28 Your Excellency, we respect you, we respect our President, and we want to say that we

02:34 will stand behind him and stand behind you.

02:37 Thank you, our Bishop, for showing the way.

02:39 May God bless all of you.

02:40 Asante.

02:41 (Applause.)

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