Why Senator Murkomen's Position on Mau Expulsions Could Cost Her Majority Headquarters :: Kenya

The cracks in President Jubilee Party Uhuru Kenyatta continue to worsen with a planned ousting of the Senate majority leader, Kipchumba Murkomen, pinch at the last minute.

Sunday's National Jubilee Council (NEC) emergency meeting of the National Council initially approved Murkomen's withdrawal from the powerful position and it took a last-minute intervention by Vice President William Ruto to prevent I re-send.

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The CEN meeting which started at 10 am and continued until 3 pm was replaced by Professor Lang Lang or his counterpart Uasin Gishu, Professor Margaret Kamar.

The NEC's urgent meeting was prompted by a meeting earlier Saturday evening by agents of the State House who had raised the ouster offer. It is not yet clear whether the kidnapping of the Murkomen had the endorsement of President Kenyatta.

According to a legislator attending the night meeting, State House was surprised by Murkomen's successive political statements that seemed to contradict the government's position.

"The feeling in circles of power is that since the statements of the leader of the Senate majority, the mind was no longer with the government, from opposition to it. Uhuru's ordered lifestyle audit to his outbursts at Mau, he seems to have become Vice President William Ruto, who officiated in a Harambee at Karisa Maitha stadium in Kilifi County to help with Bible translation, was forced to make frantic calls to save Senator Elgeyo Marakwet.

Murkomen's political woes worsened after he hit some people in the government for planning Mau evictions that appear to be harming Ruto's political image.

Addressing the evicted to Kitoben, in Narok County, Senator Elgeyo Marakwet had expressed the opinion that some government officials were working in concert with opposition leader Raila Odinga to denigrate Ruto's leadership in creating a Mau crisis. hurt his offer of 2022.

"The plan to expel the people of Mau later, they will use that to say that those who go for 2022 have not done the job of solving the crisis. Be aware that the government will not allow people to be used as political herring "he said.

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On Sunday, the secretary general of the Jubilee party, Raphael, refuted the allegations that the NEC emergency meeting had been convened to end the withdrawal of the Murcomaniacs. Senate seat.

He said that the committee's mandate is not to remove members from their parliamentary positions.

"Not possible, we have no locus about it.It's only the Senate caucus that can handle this.We can not meet to discuss something that we do not have. We have no locus, "said Tuju in response.

Murkomen alluded Saturday to a plot to remove him from the majority position in the Senate.

He had said, "Let me warn my detractors that I know they're looking for a way to win my seat in the Senate majority, but they will not go anywhere, what I'm doing it is for the fate of these people expelled inhumanly. "

Tuju insinuated that the government's position to expel those who have encroached and settle in the water castles has expired and promised that the exercise will continue.

Tuju's remarks point to a grueling political battle within the leadership team after Senator Murkomen said he would continue to defend the settlers even if it meant breaking ties with President Uhuru Kenyatta.

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However, he moved to false statements of net split within the government on expulsions qualifying Murkomen's comments as personal and which did not represent the feelings of A member of the executive.

"Murkomen (remarks) is an emerging issue because it is unexpected that the majority leader in the Senate may differ with the government, of which he is a part," he added.

Tuju made these remarks following the meeting of the National Management Committee of the party, which was held earlier in the day.

The committee welcomes the initiative "Building Bridges" and announces its intention to join the leader of the Wiper Party, Kalonzo Musyoka, the Amani National Congress (ANC) of Musalia Mudavadi and the Ford Kenya of Moses Wetang & ula.