The Cash Wars in NASA seem to be edging towards dirty waters. The cash wrangles have now turned verbal with ODM and Ford Kenya leaders trading words all over.
After ODM SG Edwin Sifuna yesterday claimed that Ford Kenya was not entitled to a share of the NASA Coalition funds, former Kakamega Boni Khalwale has now come out to viciously defend his party Ford Kenya from being belittled.
All NASA affiliate parties want a share of the money allocated from the Political Parties Fund and keep monthly contributions from their MPs.
But in a hard tackle against partners staking a claim to the Political Parties Fund, ODM yesterday said it owes ‘no other party any money’.
“Ford Kenya is a like a slay queen insulting the spouse and then expecting to be sent rent. ODM will not give Ford Kenya even a penny. Whatever they contributed to the NASA coalition has been negated by their propaganda and slaying [sinc] with Deputy President William Ruto,” said ODM secretary general Edwin Sifuna
While speaking as part of a pannel on NTV’s Breakfast show, Boni Khalwale described Edwin Sifuna as a nobody in the politics of this country.
“Edwin Sifuna is a nobody in the politics of this country! He is nothing! He has contested in Bungoma, in Kanduyi constituency, and he has not been able to go beyond nominations,” said Khalwale.
ODM on the other hand is accusing Ford Kenya of trying to make good Wetangula’s threats of a ‘messy and nosy’ divorce from the coalition.
“Ford Kenya has no locus standi. The money belongs to ODM and it is the party which will decide what to do with it. There is nowhere it is agreed that we share money with anybody,” Sifuna insisted.
The NASA coalition has been wobbly since the March 9 handshake with frequent squabbles over claims of unilateral decisions by ODM leader Raila Odinga and bullying of partners.
After Raila was named Africa Union envoy for infrastructure development and Wiper’s Kalonzo Musyoka picked to lead peace negotiations in South Sudan, observers have concluded that that the NASA coalition had become moribund.
Ford Kenya leader Moses Wetang’ula has declared the coalition ‘dead’ but his ANC counterpart Musalia Mudavadi insists the coalition is alive and kicking and will continue to check the Jubilee administration.