Kalonzo tells rebel Wiper MPs to get ready for by-election

Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka and his sons Klein (left) and Kennedy (right) lay a wreath on the grave of his late mother Sarah Malia Musyoka during her 10th anniversary memorial service in Tseikuru, Mwingi North on September 24, 2016. Mr Musyoka said Wiper MPs who recently defected to Jubilee should be ready for a by-election. PHOTO | BENEDICT MUTUKU | NATION MEDIA GROUP

What you need to know:

  • He said the Wiper rebels should stop “double dealing” and seek fresh mandate from the voters.”
  • Mr Musyoka said the constituents should be allowed to exercise their constitutional mandate.
  • He said the party will soon hold a national delegates’ conference (NDC) to deliberate on the fate of the defectors.

Wiper Democratic Movement party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has put on notice rebel politicians who recently defected to the Jubilee party, saying that they must brace themselves for a by-election.

While calling on renegade MPs to come out clearly on whether they had ditched his party for Jubilee, Mr Musyoka said a by-election must be conducted in all the five constituencies in Ukambani whose representatives had shifted loyalty to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s party.

He said the Wiper rebels should stop “double dealing” and seek fresh mandate from the voters.”

“It is improper for those who have joined Jubilee to remain in office for the remaining period of their term,” said Mr Musyoka.

Mr Musyoka said the defectors had no place in the Wiper party.

“You cannot be in two parties at the same time. You are either in Jubilee or Wiper,” he said.

Mr Musyoka was addressing journalists during the 10th memorial service for his late mother Sarah Malia Musyoka’s at his Tseikuru home in Mwingi North Constituency on Saturday.

DEFEAT

He warned that MPs Joe Mutambu (Mwingi Central), John Munuve (Mwingi North), Regina Ndambuki (Kilome), Kisoi Munyao (Mbooni) and Richard Makenga (Kaiti) will be voted out in the by-elections and in the 2017 general elections.

Though he agreed that it was their democratic right to move to the Jubilee party, Mr Musyoka said the constituents should be allowed to exercise their constitutional mandate.

“[For] those who have joined Jubilee, it is their democratic right to do so. But it is also a democratic right for those who gave them a mandate through the Wiper party to express their frustration with them (MPs),” said Mr Musyoka.

He said the party will soon hold a national delegates’ conference (NDC) to deliberate on the fate of the defectors whom he said had expelled themselves from the party.

“These people have expelled themselves, they have decided to leave our party and we will be calling an NDC to discuss their expulsion [as] they are already deemed to have been expelled,” said the rather tough Musyoka.

He, however, said the politicians will be given a chance to defend themselves before they are ejected from the party.

“Our disciplinary committee will give them an opportunity to defend themselves. Maybe they have not left Wiper,” said Mr Musyoka.