Moses Kuria says Jubilee S.G Tuju has no powers to fire Kirinyaga Assembly Majority leader
For far too long, the Jubilee Secretariat has been carrying out party affairs with reckless abandon. One would be forgiven for thinking the unelected officials at the Secretariat do own the party. They exhibit an owner-occupier mentality towards Jubilee Party. Even if they are the owners of the Jubilee House and we, the elected leaders are the tenants, even the tenants would have a right to purchase part of the home through a Tenant Purchase Scheme. Enough is Enough. The tenants want their party back !
The Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju has purported to fire Hon Kamau Murango as the Majority Leader in Kirinyaga County Assembly. Hon Murango’s fault:- Commenting on an impeachment motion against Governor Anne Waiguru moved by an Independent MCA Hon Kinyua Wangui of Mutira Ward. For Starters, Hon Murango was elected to carry out oversight role over the Kirinyaga County Executive. Secondly, the position of the Leader of Majority as enshrined in the Constitution, the Law and the Standing Orders is the preserve of the members of the County Assembly, the National Assembly and the Senate as the case may be. Hon Raphael Tuju or any other busy body has no business appointing or dismissing Majority Leaders
Further, it is curious why Raphael Tuju and his Owner Occupiers at Jubilee Party did not act with the same alacrity in Kiambu County. One wonders whether Hon Tuju is the Secretary General of Jubilee Party Kirinyaga Branch
Even more astounding is how a Secretary General has time to intervene with the affairs of a constitutionally mandated County Assembly when it tries to play its oversight role while he has consistently defied the directives of the Party Leader H.E President Uhuru Kenyatta to convene a Parliamentary Group Meeting for us, the tenants of the party to express our feelings to the owner-occupiers of the party on the various challenges facing the party and country.
According to our records, the Jubilee Party had not sought from the Registrar of Political Parties an extension of the term of the interim officials. Mr Tuju and his team are therefore in the office illegally and he should stop embarrassing himself by committing further illegalities like he is doing in Kirinyaga County
The foregoing notwithstanding, I demand Hon Tuju to convene twin meetings of the National Executive Council (NEC) and the Parliamentary Group (PG) as directed by the Party Leader H.E President Uhuru Kenyatta. This way Hon Tuju will greatly benefit from the directives and guidance of the people who campaigned long and heard to put Jubilee Government in power
In the meantime I urge Hon Kamau Murango and the Kirinyaga County Assembly to consider the purported dismissal as null and void and treat it with the utmost contempt it deserves
