"I want to be the 5th President of Kenya" Former DPP declares

Kenya presidential race is getting crowded by the day. Nairobi suave, fast talking lawyer has thrown his hat in the ring and wants to be the 5th president of Kenya.

Former Director of Public Prosecution, Philip Kipchirchir Murgor is the latest entrant into the race to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta in next year's General Election.

“This decision hasn’t come easily, but after much consultation with family and friends, I know it is the right and only decision I can make to help get this country back on track. The country is at a tipping point,” Murgor declared.

The 55 year old veteran lawyer, declared his interest to be the 5th president of Kenya in an interview with daily nation over the weekend. He says he is the freshness the country has been yearning and promises to save the country from “choking corruption, politics of ethnic exclusion and economic mismanagement”

Murgor claims he has a clean record from when he worked in the public service and hopes his supporters will provide resources to help him sell his agenda countrywide.

“Mwai Kibaki in 2002 didn’t spend much of his money. Kenyans supported him owing to the widespread disaffection.  I have received a lot of pledges from people who are willing to support us, the encouragement is immense,” the veteran lawyer argues his case.

Murgor further adds the only way to save the country is by President Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto not offering themselves for re-election.

“Governing a complex nation like ours, one needs to approach it sober, with honesty and integrity, and dedicate 24 hours a day- seven days a week for 365 days a year. The issue now, is simply whether or not President Kenyatta has lived up to the oath of his office, has been competent, effective, fair and equitable to all citizens of Kenya. The short answer is No!”

Murgor said he will vie using United Democratic Party (UDM) ticket and plans to have a female running mate

The city based lawyer has challenged both Mr Kenyatta and opposition leaders to declare their wealth in order to convince Kenyans that they are not beneficiaries of loot from public coffers.

“This will prevent overnight rise of chicken traders to billionaires. The same should apply to their running mates,” he said.

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Murgor has no love to spare either on the Deputy President, William Ruto quest to become president come 2022.

“The DP is a bad deal. God help us if he becomes president,” Murgor says

He also dismissed the opposition whom he said are not any better.

“What is presented as alternative leadership in the opposition, in most cases, are false optical political illusions: the alternative being suggested is actually the activation and animation of the same old wine in new wineskins. And so the zero-sum, unavailing and divisive logic of tribal hegemony and domination on the one hand and tribal subjugation, and victimhood on the other continue to be the two contesting and overarching themes of our politics.”

Murgor is a son of a powerful Kanu figure, Mr Charles Murgor, who was a provincial commissioner and later MP for Eldoret South constituency.

He was hounded out of office by the Narc administration in 2005, two years after President Mwai Kibaki appointed him to the position.