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Pro-BBI politicians have threatened to sponsor a law that will allow the President to appoint and dismiss his deputy.
The group, led by nominated Jubilee MP Maina Kamanda, have taken issue with DP William Ruto’s attacks on the BBI report.
This is the latest incident in the clash between Ruto and the Uhuru-Raila camp. The pro-handshake politicians, aka Kieleweke are now calling on Ruto to resign and concentrate on his presidential bid.
Any outsider interested in Kenyan politics would easily conclude that Ruto is the chief opposition leader. The DP has criticized the government for spending millions of taxpayers’ money to organise BBI forums. He claims the BBI has been hijacked to craft ODM’s 2022 political line-up.
Despite being the second most powerful man in Kenya (at least on paper), the man from Sugoi cannot defend his soldiers from persecution by state agencies.
He has helplessly watched as three governors supporting him are locked out of office. Several Tanga Tanga lawmakers; Samson Cherargei (Nandi Senator), Ndindi Nyoro (Kiharu) & Moses Kuria (Gatundu South) have also spent at least a night in custody in the past one year.
Is it time for Ruto to resign from this government and face his opponents head-on?
Here are the stories making headlines on Opera News:
CSs Split Between Uhuru and Ruto
The future of the Jubilee government is on shaky ground after Cabinet Secretaries and some senior civil servants divided their loyalties between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto.
While some CSs are openly showing their allegiance to the two, others are quietly taking sides as the road to 2022 takes shape.
Horror as Al Shabaab Strike Garissa
A frail Lucy Wanjira, a teacher at the Kamuthe Resource Centre, yesterday narrated how she clutched her one-year-old child close to her chest and hid under a bed for hours as the attackers, believed to be Al-Shabaab militants, struck.
Sossion Threatens to Pull Out Teachers Over Terror Attacks
Teachers living in the terror-prone Northeastern region will be withdrawn if the government does not act, the Kenya National Union of Teachers has said.
The union gave the warning yesterday, a day after an al Shabaab attack in Garissa left three non-local teachers dead.
Form one admission started on Monday with claims that some schools have devised dubious means to milk parents extra money despite the biting economic times. Most parents have been directed to purchase basic requirements like bedsheets and cutlery from the school at inflated prices. Do you have a form one student? What have you been directed to buy before admission?