This afternoon, The FORD-Kenya National Executive Council meeting at the Party headquarters, resolved to appoint me as Acting Secretary General.
With great humility, I accept the appointment. I pledge to work tirelessly to serve the party and promote it to even greater heights.
Our party is a party steeped in the liberation history of our country. It is the party of Masinde Muliro,Jaramogi Odinga,Michael Wamalwa, George Kapten amongst other Titans of the second liberation.
FORD-Kenya has paid it’s debt in the democratization struggle through sweat,blood and tears of it’s members. This is a legacy that we must safeguard at all costs.
Our party has faced many challenges in it’s history from antidemocratic and dark forces. In it’s infancy the original FORD was splintered by the state. Yet we still survived emerging as the official opposition party in 1993 with MPs in all of the former 8 provinces.
Later after the death of the Jaramogi Odinga in 1994, we faced internal turmoil that led to a split. Yet we survived and placed favourably in the 1997 elections. This performance paved way for the emergencence of our leader, Hon. Michael Wamalwa as the Vice president in the NARC government and our ascendance to the party of Government.
The current disturbances by miscreant elements fuelled by dirty money pilfered from the citizenry shall also be defeated.
I urge all party members to remain calm as we sanitize the party of antidemocratic elements. In due course the troublemakers and their paymasters shall be exposed and shamed for all to see.
I thank you. God bless Kenya.
Hon. Chris Wamalwa,CBS,MP
Secretary General-FORD Kenya
