Onyonka urges forgiveness and inclusive healing for national progress
Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka has called on Kenyans to embrace unity and national healing, urging citizens to reject ethnic divisions and come together to fix the country’s challenges.
In a statement shared on his X account on Saturday, May 17, 2025, Senator Onyonka supported recent remarks by People’s Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua, emphasising that Kenya must rise above tribal politics and focus on shared solutions.
He pointed out that the suffering being experienced under President William Ruto’s administration affects all communities, not just one.
“We agree with what SC Martha Karua has averred. Sometimes, the nation is bigger than all of us. We must be sensitive so that we don’t sell what makes us hate each other. We are greater when we forgive each other and embrace,” Onyonka noted.
Adding;
“It’s not only the Kikuyu community that has suffered more in Ruto’s presidency than the rest of us. We will deal with the mess through a concerted and inclusive effort!”
Family
Onyonka’s sentiments come days after Martha Karua appeared on a local radio station on May 12, 2025, where she called for inclusivity and integrity in leadership.
Karua described Kenya as one big family made up of different demographics, including the youth, the elderly, and the disabled, and stressed the importance of working together.
“Kenya is not about the youth only. Kenya is a family. It’s the largest family unit we have, and that family is going to have all demographics; it will have the youth, the middle-aged, the old, the disabled. We must work together. All I say, get people of integrity,” Karua said.
The PLP leader also reminded Kenyans that good leadership should be judged by its impact on all citizens, not just those from a particular tribe. She urged voters to choose leaders based on their ability to deliver, not their ethnic background.
“A bad leader is even bad to his community. Anything good affects everybody. Mwai Kibaki said ‘free education for all’, it was not for only those who supported him, it was for everyone in the country,” she said.
Adding;
“When Ruto says punitive taxes, he doesn’t say punitive but that is what they are, everyone is suffering, it’s not a question of communities. So do not look at the community someone comes from, but their capability.”
