ODM defectors to meet disciplinary committee at city hotel
Lawyer Kioko Kilukumi.
What you need to know:
- The politicians will appear before the Fred Athuok-led team at Intercontinental Hotel on October 14.
- The party had summoned two governors, a deputy governor and 10 MPs who publicly declared their support for Jubilee.
The Orange Democratic Movement's disciplinary committee has agreed to meet party defectors on a neutral ground.
The decision comes after members who left for Jubilee Party failed to show up at Orange House in Nairobi on Thursday.
The 13 politicians, through their lawyer Kioko Kilukumi, explained that they avoided going to the party headquarters because they feared for their security.
"They expressed security fears — they know the party and so their fears must be well founded," he said.
The politicians will appear before the Fred Athuok-led team at Intercontinental Hotel on October 14.
The party had summoned two governors, a deputy governor and 10 MPs who publicly declared their support for Jubilee during its launch on September 10.
They are governors Salim Mvurya (Kwale) and Ukur Yatani (Marsabit), and Kisii Deputy Governor Joash Maangi.
And the lawmakers are Steven Kariuki (Mathare), Mpuri Aburi (Tigania East), Gideon Mung’aro (Kilifi North), Mustafa Iddi (Kilifi South), Cyprian Kubai (Igembe Central), Isaac Mwaura (nominated), James Rege (Karachuonyo), Samuel Arama (Nakuru Town), John Waluke (Sirisia) and Kwale Woman Representative Zainab Chidzuga.
