[SIZE=7]You’ve shortchanged the people of Mt Kenya, Kabogo tells DP Ruto[/SIZE]
Thursday, May 12, 2022
William Kabogo has threatened to ditch Deputy President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza Alliance.
Mr Kabogo says Dr Ruto appears to be favouring Musalia Mudavadi of Amani National Congress (ANC) and Bungoma governor Moses Wetang’ula of Ford-Kenya.
This is after the affiliate parties deposited a coalition agreement with the Registrar of Political Parties indicating that Mr Mudavadi will take up the Prime Cabinet Secretary position should Dr Ruto win the August 9 polls.
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Moses Wetang’ula, Deputy President William Ruto, ANC boss Musalia Mudavadi and Jibebe’s William Kabogo
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The prime CS post, which is akin to that of a Prime Minister in an expanded Executive, currently does not exist in the constitution.
In the agreement, Mr Mudavadi’s ANC will reportedly also propose several cabinet secretaries, principal secretaries and ambassadors, taking up 30 percent of government alongside Mr Wetangula’s Ford-Kenya.
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Mr Wetangula, as per the agreement, has reportedly been proposed as Speaker of the National Assembly.
Dr Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) will take up the president and deputy president positions, with a bulk of government centred around it, the deal states.
Now, Mr Kabogo says that’s not what he and Ruto agreed on when he (Kabogo) accepted to join Kenya Kwanza.
“I want to send out a message. I have seen the coalition agreement that UDA, ANC and Ford-Kenya have deposited with the political parties’ registrar. I did not join hands with William Ruto to get an appointive position,” Mr Kabogo said during a rally at Makongeni in Thika on Thursday, May 12, 2022.
[SIZE=6]Based on human population[/SIZE]
He went on: “When he and I held a meeting in Dubai, I told him that I’m not interested in any Executive seat. However, I told him that I wanted him to ensure that resources are distributed equitably among Kenyan regions, especially in areas that will support his presidential bid, key among them the Mt Kenya region. What I suggested is that resources should be channelled based on the human population. He accepted my suggestion at the time.”
The former county chief said the expanded Executive proposal that seeks to introduce prime CS was not part of his agreement with Ruto.
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“I never saw that being factored in in the agreement deposited with the registrar of political parties. (After the agreement deposited with the political parties’ registrar was leaked to the media), I called and asked him (Ruto) to explain the document. I told him: ‘I have seen you’ve highlighted how you’ll share seats in the Executive; with Mudavadi and Wetangula occupying 30 per cent of government’. I stated to him that, on my end, I don’t want even one percent of the Executive seats.”
The DP’s signing of the deal with ANC and Ford Kenya, he said, was a betrayal of the people of Mt Kenya and the agreement he and Dr Ruto had.
“I insisted that the people of Mt Kenya must get benefits from his government. I further told him that if he won’t commit to such an arrangement, we will ditch the (Kenya Kwanza) coalition, even if only 10 of us agree to leave. And, thereafter, Kenyans will know what I had seen that necessitated my exit from Kenya Kwanza,” Mr Kabogo said in the rally.
When called later by Nation. Africa, Mr Kabogo said he was dissatisfied with how Dr Ruto had treated the 5.8 million vote-rich Mt Kenya.
“Yes, I have said that (referring to the video) and I don’t regret repeating it. This is not what we discussed with him (Dr Ruto). The issue is what do Mt Kenya people stand to gain for supporting him? It is not about Kabogo but Mt Kenya people at large. If what I am reading in the papers and watching on TV is true, then the DP should come out clear and tell the Mt Kenya people what they stand to gain in supporting him,” he charged.
Elsewhere…
Peter Munya on Wednesday lashed out at a group of Deputy President William Ruto’s supporters who had tried to shout him down during a meeting at the Mitheru chief’s camp in Tharaka Nithi County.
The group of women provoked Mr Munya by asking him to stop mentioning DP Ruto in claims that he had failed to build National Cereals and Produce Board stores in the area when he was Agriculture minister though he likes visiting the region.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuwIlppPoBk
The rattled CS angrily ordered the group to leave the meeting if they were uncomfortable with his remarks.
[INDENT]Niwachane na yeye kwani ni baba yako? Wewe ukiniambia niwachanene na yeye nitakuambia uende zako. Kwani ni baba yako! [/INDENT]
[INDENT](Why should I leave him alone, is he your father? If you tell me to leave him, I will order you to go away).[/INDENT]
He continued: “Wewe usikuje kuniongelesha kwa mkutano wangu, kama unataka kuenda kwake toka hapo uende, unakaa hapo kufanya nini! Mimi unajua siko kwa siasa yake na unakuja mkutano wangu kwa nini?” (Don’t lecture me in my meeting and if you want to go to him, go away! Why do you come to my meetings yet you know I am not politically allied to him? What are you doing there, go!’
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The CS said he would continue to speak about DP Ruto from morning to evening because he also talks about others and that he has a constitutional right to speak his mind.
He added that he would continue addressing the issue of the Kimwarer dam and other stalled projects including roads for which “Ruto and his allies” are to blame.
The rest of the crowd cheered him, asking him to reveal everything about DP Ruto and his friends.
The CS drummed up support for Azimio la Umoja One Kenya presidential candidate Raila Odinga and Jubilee candidates in the county.
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Mr Munya said he was confident that Mr Odinga would win the August 9 polls and told the locals to support him or prepare to remain in the opposition for the next five years.
He said the target of Azimio la Umoja One Kenya is to add 10 per cent to the 44 per cent of votes that Mr Odinga received in the last general election and that he already has 30 per cent of Mt Kenya votes.
He asked the residents to vote for Prof Erastus Njoka (governor), Paul Mugambi (senator), Peninah Kambanja (women representative) and Dr Mutegi Kabisani (Tharaka), Lawrence Kaburu (Maara) and Kirito Mutegi (Chuka/Igambang’ombe) as MPs.