Raila now claims police raided Jubilee Party headquarters

Raila now claims police raided Jubilee Party headquarters

Raila Odinga speaking during a past interview with BBC. Image:Courtesy

Azimio La Umoja One Kenya party leader Raila Odinga now claims that a section of former Jubilee politicians who recently decamped to Kenya Kwanza forcefully took over operations at the party's headquarters in the company of police officers on Wednesday.

Speaking in Karen, Nairobi just moments after police officers raided former Interior CS Fred Matiangi's home, Odinga said that the Kenya Kwanza administration is leading a witch-hunt against politicians allied to Azimio all in the hopes of shackling the opposition.

"Today police officers went with these people and invaded the headquarters of  Jubilee party and took over the offices there. They are trying to destroy Jubilee so that Jubilee can be consumed by Kenya Kwanza," said Odinga.

"This is an intention of taking this country back to a single-party dictatorship. They want to undermine the opposition and kill it so that they create one monolith. This is where we are going to and this country is in serious danger of going back to single-party dictatorship."

Odinga's remarks come after former President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee Party suspended its Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni, Vice Chairperson David Murathe, as well as National Treasurer Kagwe Gichohi over what it termed as their conduct of the political outfit’s affairs.

Jubilee Chairman Nelson Dzuya made the announcement on Friday following the conclusion of the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held at the Sarova Woodlands Hotel in Nakuru.

Meanhwile, the Registrar of Political Parties Ann Nderitu has brushed off Jeremiah Kioni's questions on the legality of Jubilee’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting that approved his suspension as the party Secretary General.

In a statement on Wednesday, Ms. Nderitu dismissed this claim, maintaining that Kioni’s ouster was well within the party’s constitution.

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