Ruto: NASA's resist plan is an extortion scheme

The Jubilee administration has bashed the National Super Alliance leadership of running an extortion scheme in the name of boycotting products of some of the country’s leading companies.Deputy President William Ruto asked the firms targeted in the boycott to reject the bizarre extortion racket camouflaged as economic boycott and continue to meet their taxation obligation only to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).Ruto who has his eyes set on the presidency in 2022, was reacting to Friday, November 3, calls by Nasa to its supporters to give products of some firms the Opposition thinks supported Jubilee in the August 8 presidential election that was voided by the Supreme Court, a wide berth.Through a series of posts on Twitter, Number Two noted that some of the companies listed by Nasa in its economic boycott call had been victims of an extortion ring perpetuated by some of the leaders in the coalition.According to the DP, companies had been asked to “donate” to Nasa to avoid being put in the list he described as a “brazen and bizarre extortion racket-styled economic boycott”.As the government of Kenya, we advise Bidco to reject extortion and continue its Sh20 billion expansion programme that will increase to 12,500 Kenyans working there,” Mr Ruto said in one of the tweets.“We urge all companies to continue to partner with Kenyans, pay taxes only to KRA and reject the extortion scheme-styled e-boycott.” Ruto added.Nasa has asked its supporters to boycott products by Bidco Industries as well as Safaricom and the Kenyatta family-owned Brookside dairies.