A LIST OF JUBILEE MPs SET TO BE FIRED FROM THEIR JOBS

The purge that started from cabinet secretaries, went down to the senate now will trickle down to the National Assembly according to Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju. Raphael Tuju says the purge is not personal but it is aimed at bringing party discipline and harmonious work ethic towards achieving the Jubilee manifesto.

Speaking about the purge expected in the National Assembly, Tuju said, “We will deal with those errant members. When it is Members of Parliament we expect 100% fidelity to the contract they signed with the party. And we do have those contracts available for any inspection. When they were going for elections they said they were going to support the party. They hanged on the goodwill of the party to get their positions. For them to now change tact midstream is nothing but betrayal of the party.”

Yesterday saw changes in the Senate committe structures. Senator Christopher Lang’at (Bomet) was replaced at the House Business Committee by Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja. Lang’at also lost his post as Education Committee chairman to Senate Alice Milgo. Senator Samson Cherargei (Nandi) was removed as chairman of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. Meru Senator Linturi Mithika also lost his membership at the Senate County Public Accounts and Investment Committee. Linturi was replaced by Senator Fatuma Dullo. John Kinyua lost his position as the chairman of the Devolution Committee. Kipchumba Murkomen was made a member of the Devolution Committee. The changes will be reshuffled again owing to the fact that some senators have rejected the positions awarded to them.

Majority leader Aden Duale leads the list of MPs whose job hang on the line with Jomo Washiali the Chief Whip at the national assembly. It is yet to be seen if Aden Duale will lose his position because unlike other members, he seems to have changed his tune and is seen now as fully behind the president’s development agenda.

The jubilee party sanitization campaign goes on full throttle as some senators face the disciplinary commitee today. Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei has called the disciplinary meetings as a front in intimidating Rift Valley legislators. He said that there was no similar reaction when the Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru campaigned for Imran Okoth instead of Mariga in the Kibra byelections.

When asked about a possible rift between the president and his deputy, Raphael Tuju was curt. ‘I can’t discuss that. It is above my pay grade,’ he said.