Lobby tells off Senator Orengo and MP Mbadi on the issue of new Currency.

 Kisumu Joint Bunges Network Representative Salim Onyango address the press in Kisumu where he has castigated Siaya Senator James Orengo and ODM Party National Chairman John Mbadi over their recent remarks on the new currency-Dickson Odhiambo.

 By Dickson Odhiambo.

June 4, 2019.

Lobby tells off Senator Orengo and MP Mbadi on the issue of new Currency.

SIAYA Senator James Orengo and Orange Democratic Movement Party National Chairman John Mbadi has been told not to politicize the issue of the recently released new currency by the Central Bank of Kenya.

Kisumu Joint Bunges Network Representative Salim Onyango says the move by Siaya Senator James Orengo planning to move to court to challenge the decision of the Central Bank of Kenya to come up with new notes with portrait of Kenya’s first President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta is not a good one.

Addressing the press in Kisumu, Onyango said there is nothing wrong with the new notes since the portrait which is used does not belong to the founding father of this nation but is that of the Kenyatta International Convention Center having a statue of former President Kenyatta.

Onyango says the move by the Central Bank of Kenya to come up with the new notes is a very good one and should be supported at all cost, adding  that politicians should not mislead the country on the issue.

“I want to laud the recent move the Central Bank of Kenya came up with on the issue of rolling out the new currency for Kenyans because it conforms to our constitution that was promulgated in the year 2010,” Onyango says.

Onyango says there are a lot of issues affecting Kenyans in general which politicians should discuss and help find an amicable solution and not the issue of the new currency for the country.

“I want to tell Senator Orengo and ODM Party National Chairman John Mbadi and any other politician to ensure that they discuss important issues affecting Kenyans from all walks of life,” Onyango adds.

He further says both President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga should be allowed so as to steer the country into the right direction after they engaged in the handshake on March 9, 2018 that really helped to heal the country following a highly contested General Election in the year 2017.

Siaya Senator James Orengo and ODM Party National Chairman who is also Suba South Member of Parliament John Mbadi last weekend criticized the Central Bank of Kenya’s move to roll out new currency while arguing that it has not been done in line with the new constitutional provisions after a portrait of the founding father former President Jomo Kenyatta has been used in one of the new notes.

Central Bank of Kenya Governor Patrick Njoroge last Saturday in Narok County during this year’s Madaraka Day celebration announced that the current shs 1,000 note will not be a legal tender as from October 1 this year and has been replaced by a new note.

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