Raila now claims police raided Jubilee Party headquarters
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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