Just how strong is Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa? Despite opposition Party fighting her so hard for dining with William Ruto, the vocal lawmaker is putting in a fight of a lifetime and will surely not be going down easily.
Meanwhile, DP William Ruto could have just signed his Political death warrant with his tough stand on the ongoing fight on corruption.
The DP’s lieutenants too seem to be making things worse for the County’s second in command with unwarranted utterances that keep portraying them and the DP as tribalists who are out to ensure Kenyans do not get to know the truth about the various corruption scandals that have rocked the Country recently.
Back to Aisha Jumwa, Raila Odinga says that the ODM Party is ready to forgive her if she apologizes for going against the Party’s Code of Conduct. Well, knowing Aisha Jumwa and the level of Pride she bears, it remains to be seen if she will indeed bow down to Baba.
All said and done, Welcome to Your Daily Dose of Political Stories Making headlines:
AISHA JUMWA STANDS TALL DESPITE THE TURBULENT ODM WATERS COMING HER WAY
ODM will have to wait a little bit longer before it can formally expell Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa from the Party.
This comes after the Political Parties Tribunal extended conservatory orders barring ODM from expelling her pending the hearing and determination of the complaint she lodged at the tribunal.
Through lawyer Kipchumba Murkomen who is also the Elgeyo Marakwet Senator, the legislator argues that the decision to expedite her from the party was unlawful.
The case will be heard on May 7.
KIPCHUMBA MURKOMEN HITS OUT AT HYPOCRITICAL ODM OVER AISHA JUMWA’S TREATMENT
Senate Majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen has lashed out at ODM for expelling Jumwa saying it’s hypocritical.
Murkomen said ODM was using its party machinery to unfairly punish leaders from marginalised areas.
He said the party’s top leadership is working with the government but it expelled Jumwa for associating with DP William Ruto.
“I want to tell this characters who pretend to be agents of democracy and they are lords presiding over the worst dictatorship in this republic that we will not watch our colleagues being sacrificed, tortured, as if they don’t belong to this country,” Murkomen said.
RUTO CAUTIONED THAT HE DOES NOT BEAR THE LOCK TO THE PRESIDENCY
DP Ruto has now been reminded that he holds no lock on the Presidency and should therefore campaign using facts instead of trying to blackmail President Kenyatta. These are the thoughts of Nyeri MP Ngunjiri Wambugu.
Ruto and his allies have lately been judged as people trying to use the fight against corruption to advance their political agenda.
According to Ngunjiri, the fight against corruption will not be slowed down simply because William Ruto want’s to become Kenya’s President.
In a hard-hitting message to Ruto, the Nyeri Lawmaker has said that Ruto’s Presidential ambitions can be sacrificed but not the war on corruption.
“It is not written anywhere that he (Ruto) must be President,” Wambugu wrote on his Facebook Page.
“Kenya is more important than any single person’s ambition, including his (Ruto’s) ambition).”
MP KIMANI NGUNJIRI DESTROYS RUTO AND HIS CO-HORTS
Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambungu has launched fresh attacks directed towards DP William Ruto and his allies.
Ruto’s allies have been on a ranting spree with claims that the current fight against corruption is directed towards a particular community.
They have also claimed that Ruto’s Presidential bid is being scuffled as most of the people caught up in this whole corruption merry go round are his close allies with the latest one being CS Henry Rotich who is facing grave allagetions with regard to the Dams Scandal.
MP Wambugu has now said that no community was being targeted in the fight against corruption.
He said of the 115 already charged with corruption, 43 were Kikuyus, 18 Luos, 11 Kalenjins, six Kambas, six Merus and five from the Abagusii community. There are three Taitas and two each from Mijikenda and Aembu.
Borana, Sabaot, Ilchamus, Maasai, Duruma, Somali, Pokomo and Digo have one suspect each, Wambugu said.
He accused Kalenjin political leaders headed by Ruto, Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi and Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen of trying to make Kenyans believe the anti-graft war was targeting their community.
He said none of the suspects stole public finds and shared the loot with their community.
Ruto and allies are facing strong criticisms for taking a swipe at the investigating agencies to frustrate the war on graft.