Kalonzo cracks the whip on defectors

Wiper Democratic Movement party leader Kalonzo Musyoka has put on notice rebel politicians who recently defected to Jubilee Party, saying they must brace for by-elections.

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, who seemed to follow the route of his Cord co-principal and ODM leader Raila Odinga on cracking the whip on the rebels, said the defectors had no place in Wiper.

“You cannot be in two parties at the same time, you are either in Jubilee or Wiper,” he said after a memorial service for his late mother Sarah Malia Musyoka at his Tseikuru home in Mwingi North on Saturday.

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 even in the 2017 elections.

“Those who have joined Jubilee, it is their democratic right to do so, but it is also a democratic right to those who gave them a mandate through the Wiper party to express their frustration with them (MPs),” said the Wiper boss.

He said the party will soon hold a National Delegates Conference to deliberate on the fate of the defectors.

He, however, said the politicians will be given a chance to defend themselves before they are struck out of the party.