The Kenya Kwanza Parliamentary Group during a meeting opened by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and closed by President William Ruto, resolved that state officers who backed Azimio coalition during the last campaigns must be shown the door immediately.
A top decision-making organ in the ruling coalition has trained its guns on administrators who campaigned against President Ruto’s election, demanding that they be replaced by system friendly individuals.
MPs who met the president in a closed door session at Windsor Hotel, singled out the Rift Valley Regional Commissioner Maalim Mohamed, his Wajir counterpart Jacob Narengo and the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) Director General Silas Kinoti, whom they accused of being allied to the opposition chief Raila Odinga.
Other targeted State officers include Trans Nzoia County Commissioner Samson Ojwang, Stephen Kihara of Uasin Gishu and Erastus Mbui of Nakuru County.
In one of the campaign meetings in the run up to August 9th general elections, Ruto accused Maalim of hatching plans to cause chaos chaos on elections day and blame it on Kenya Kwanza Alliance.
“The Regional Commissioner of Rift Valley, Maalim Mohamed, the County commissioners Samson Ojwang of Trans Nzoia and Stephen Kihara of Uasin Gishu and Erastus Mbui of Nakuru are part of this scheme. They are the people holding night meetings to plan conflict amongst Kenyans,” Ruto said.
MPs allied to the president are now calling on his administration to fire the provincial administrators who openly campaigned for Raila.
The lawmakers also want the President and DP Gachagua to kick out top parastatal heads who were directly involved in anti-Kenya Kwanza campaigns.
They told DP Rigathi to push for the removal of the said State officers as Rift Valley region MPs took the chance to throw the first salvo, accusing RC Mohamed of frustrating them during the campaigns.
And Wajir North MP Mohamed Ibrahim Saney said the MPs were uncompromising that RCs who openly campaigned for Azimio must be punished.
“Wajir Commissioner Jacob Narengo was notorious. He frustrated us and went to the extent of directing the IEBC to hold my certificate,” said Saney.
But President Ruto while addressing the meeting last evening asked the lawmakers not to be intimidated by some State officers whom he said tried to interfere with Kenya Kwanza’s win at Bomas.
“I am a very strong believer in building institutions like Parliament, this is the only way we can secure the country by supporting institutions so that we are dependent on them and not individuals.
“You are part of this government; you campaigned for it so defend it fully within your powers,” President Ruto told the MPs.
Kenya Kwanza candidates in the last elections including Ruto himself, then the DP, cried foul in many occasions as the administrators took sides after chiefs were forced by the retired regime to campaign for Odinga.
“We have learnt that chiefs have been instructed to campaign for Azimio la Umoja One Kenya candidates so as to help the coalition’s presidential flag-bearer Raila clinch victory” Ruto said.
