Babu Owino claims he would be Education or Interior CS if Raila had won

Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino now claims he would presently be serving the country as a Cabinet Secretary had Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition party leader Raila Odinga won the August presidential elections.

According to the MP, he would be reading from a totally different script if Mr. Odinga was sitting at the helm of the nation's leadership, proposing that he would have been allotted either the Education or Interior ministries to steer.

"Personally, I knew that I would not be sitting in this office today. Right now I would be serving Kenyans at a different level as a Cabinet Secretary either for Interior or Education but look at me now," he said during an interview with NTV.

"I promised the residents of Embakasi East that I was going to give them jobs. Some were going to work in Garissa, some in Kisumu, Nyeri and others remain in Nairobi."

In the interview, Mr. Owino claimed that the Azimio team relied too much on the outgoing leadership steered by former President Uhuru Kenyatta to deliver victory and failed to pull their own weight to claim the top spot at the polls.

"This election we cannot blame Kenya Kwanza, we have to blame ourselves within our house. That is where the problem started," he said. 

In the same breath, he claimed that there was an elaborate plan to guarantee the Azimio coalition a win but impediments such as mismanagement of funds for party agents by a few people rocked the boat. 

"There were agents in Central but they withdrew from work. They were told that they were going to be paid in batches at different times in different proportions. They were to be sent money in the morning, afternoon, and at the time of counting,” said the outspoken legislator.

"But in the morning, intentionally, no money was sent. As an agent, you will leave because you have been duped. They were not paid and the person who was to pay them was not from our side."

Azimio's loss has since seen a few of its fierce supporters blaming each other for the defeat, with most baying for the blood of Azimio Executive Committee Secretary General Junet Mohamed.

The MP however defended him saying; "There is always somebody who must carry the cross, that is why that cross was put on Junet's back."