The Orange Democratic Movement(ODM) has bashed South Africa’s opposition leader Julius Malema for insinuating that the anti-government protests are disrupting the country.
This comes a few days after Malema urged Raila Odinga to accept defeat in the August 2022 presidential election.
Speaking on Saturday in Johannesburg during the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party 10th Anniversary rally, Malema noted that presidential candidates in Africa should not relive harrowing past experiences characterized by an election’s aftermath of brutal violence.
“We want to make a call to Kenya, especially to comrade Raila Odinga. Stop doing what you are doing. Do not disrupt Kenya. We need peace in Kenya. The President William Ruto was democratically elected in Kenya. I will not allow you to use the people of Kenya to destabilize the peace of Kenya,” Malema said.
In an open letter, ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna bashed Malema for falling for Kenya Kwanza Propaganda on the highlights of the opposition protest hence making faulty assumptions about the liberations mechanism employed by the Opposition.
“Indeed, if Comrade Malema had bothered to look beyond the Kenya Kwanza regime propaganda, he would know that the recent protests in Kenya were against obscenely high taxes, rising cost of living and government refusal to listen to the people,” Sifuna stated.
Further, the Senator shun watching the liberation cause unfolding in the country from a distance, pointing out that his dynamics for agitating for change can’t be replicated in the country.
“Sifuna expressed Malema’s economic emancipation of South Africans from decades of oppression has received a boost from post apartheied president who ranked as liberators unlike the nation where he alluded has been governed by dictators.”
“If Comrade Malema lived in a nation perennially led by collaborators and former home guards, thieves and liars, who not only steal elections at will, but routinely send police to shoot unarmed civilians in a re-enaction of South Africa’s own Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 or the Marikana Massacre of 2012, he would hold different views,” noted Sifuna.
The ODM Secretary General said Malema’s economic liberation movement shares the same ideology as Azimio Coalition in fighting against oppressive capitalistic regimes.
