Mt Kenya deputies remained speechless as gag against 2022 policy comes into force :: Kenya

An earlier directive purportedly coming from State House intended to prevent lawmakers from Mount Kenya from withdrawing from politics seems to have taken effect.

Many legislators who have made their views on the 2022 policy are now curiously silent.

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The directive, also seen as part of a larger plan to shield deputy president Wiliam Ruto, has left many lawmakers in limbo . They are now forced to choose between risking everything so that their favorite candidate succeeds President Uhuru Kenyatta and remains in the good books of the Jubilee Party bosses.

David Murathe, vice president of the Jubilee, said last week that party members, especially from central Kenya, had been asked to promote the government's program, programs and promises and to avoid the 2022 policy. .

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Yesterday, Murathe said that the directive was followed.

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"I told you to look at this space, now the region is calm and can now focus on development, and MPs must support the government's plans and stop politics," he said.

Notably, unlike a past where several members of the region accompanied Ruto for events in the region and across the country, lawmakers have been traveling slowly in what signals the seriousness of the situation.

For the past week, apart from Laikipia representative Catherine Waruguru who accompanied Ruto to Modogashe in Garissa and Merti county in Isiolo and previously to Kakamega and the coast, no other MPs attended the DP meetings outside the Mt. Kenya region. .

Murathe says however that the gag does not target the vice president but aims to help in the policy of succession by ensuring that development becomes a strong selling point for Jubilee to retain power in 2022.

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"Some noisy members of Mount Kenya are busy sowing seeds of contention, why insist that they will support Ruto when it will be the plan of succession of party? "said Murathe.

He says those who cross Mount Kenya to campaign for Ruto are trying to cast doubt on Uhuru's support for his deputy.

Before the ban on gagging a month ago, Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria had written on Facebook that some leaders were holding private meetings to fight the DP.

Runda Secretariat

"I have been in politics for a long time, long enough to know that people are setting up secretariats to support one candidate, not to fight another one.Some of my colleagues from Jubilee have set up a secretariat in Runda not to campaign for someone but to fight someone, "read the message.One day before, on June 23, Kuria had shared a WhatsApp conversation between him and Ngunjiri Wambugu MP of the city of Nyeri, in which the first seemed to warn the legislator of the first mandate not to participate in such private meetings.

The war of words between Kuria and Wambugu embodies the political battle for and against Ruto that could have provoked the gag on legislators.

Support for the DDA divided the region, a group of former MPs banding together and declaring their support to ODM leader Raila Odinga, further dividing the region.

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Wambugu is currently wearing the cloak of anti-Ruto activists in the center, succeeding former Kiambu governor William Kabogo who is still in power. has since been reconciled with the PD.

The Wambugu team includes former Jamleck Kamau deputies, Kabando wa Kabando, Kembi Gitura, Joshua Toro, among others.

Former MPs met Raila at a Nairobi hotel last week and said the good deal between him and President Kenyatta was important for the future of Mount Kenya. They swore to embrace the policy of the former prime minister.

The Kuria and Kikuyu MP, Kimani Ichung & # 39; wa, is one of the legislators who spoke in favor of Ruto and both said in the past that they would not be reluctant to support the candidacy of the DP in 2022.

Attends meetings

Yesterday, Ichungw said that he would continue to say what he thought and accompany the President or his deputy in any development program across the country and not would not be intimidated.

"We are politicians, we do not run a church, but a political party with a development program.No one can prevent me as a leader from attending meetings, or d & # 39; 39, accompany someone for meetings to lobby for the Big Four in any part of the country, "he said.

"I will not change my opinion on my political persuasion."

Ndaragua MP Jeremiah Kioni agreed with Ichungw, saying that politicians should be free to express themselves on any subject

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"Whenever we discuss politics in our backyards, people ask or expect us to give them guidelines on topical issues.We can not limit ourselves as leaders to these issues, "said Kioni.