A defiant Jubilee Lawmaker has reiterated support for DP Ruto despite her security detail being withdrawn.
The controversial Kandara MP said that the withdrawal of security of leaders supporting DP Ruto would not help to solve the divisions of the party.
Other Jubilee MPs have expressed fears on their lives after some of the Party’s legislators had their security detail withdrawn.
Maragua MP Mary Waithira said as Jubilee legislators, they are living in fear as they do not know when their security could be recalled.
Maragua MP Mary Waithira, Gatanga MP Ngugi Nduati, Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria
Kandara MP Alice Wahome claimed that it is President Kenyatta who made them align themselves to Deputy President Ruto, adding that the President should take the challenge and convince them otherwise.
“After the election, the President invited us to State House and introduced us to Dr Ruto and told us to be consulting him whenever we require any assistance and that’s what we have been doing.
“He should invite us for a meeting or even urge the top leadership of the party to call us and explain to us our wrongdoing…because withdrawing the security detail is not a solution,” she said.
Speaking in SabaSaba, Maragua Sub-county, the legislators blamed Raila Odinga for the divisions currently witnessed in the Jubilee coalition.
The MPs whose security detail was recalled are Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung’wa, Nakuru Senator Susan Kihika, Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri and Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu.
Ms Wahome, who at one point was caught on camera assaulting an IEBC official, said the factions of “TangaTanga” and “kieleweke” were squarely responsible for the chaos in the ruling coalition.
She cautioned Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i and his Permanent Secretary Eng Karanja Kibicho of using the government machinery to intimidate DP Ruto supporters.
In the meeting, Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria noted that the idea of collapsing all parties into one Jubilee Party was a division ill-informed.
He was to later say he would form a new party that would carry the interests of the people of Mount Kenya region.
“We erred when we dissolved our party, The National Alliance, because Jubilee Party is an amorphous vehicle where we can’t plan about Mt Kenya through it. I shall register a political party that Mt Kenya leaders will use to plan for our future stake in government,” he said.
