Jubilee nominated Senator Millicent Omanga is facing her toughest political day today after being summoned to the Jubilee Disciplinary Committee (JDC) to answer charges of disrespecting the party leaders and failure to attend the March 11, 2020 Jubilee Parliamentary Group meeting.
The Parliamentary Group Meeting was convened by the Jubilee Party leader, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta which was ratified in order to discuss the removal of the Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen and his counterpart for Nakuru Ms. Susan Kihika for the Majority Leader and Majority Whip positions respectively.
Senator Millicent Omanga has been accused of insubordination of party leaders as well as her failure to attend the Parliamentary Group committee. Recently, in a show of her devotion and solidarity with Jubilee deputy party leader William Ruto said and I quote:
“We hear that they want to bring a motion to Impeach Deputy President William Ruto. I want to tell them ‘Bring it on Baby’. We are waiting. We have the numbers. Let them Bring the Impeachment Motion”.
Nominated Senator Millicent Omanga.
Senator Omanga’s comments above were in response to a popular believe among political pundits that Jubilee Party leaders have an hidden agenda of trying to impeach deputy president William Ruto. Although the comments imply that Senator Millicent Omanga would vote against the purported motion to impeach the deputy president, and that she believes her colleagues in the senate would do the same to block such a motion, she diverted her attention to social media when pressed to explain her self. The senator struggled to provide a plausible explanation by saying that her comments were meant to defend the party against Jubilee’s enemies in social media.
“I was defending the party against ‘perpetrators”, that is people who do not support Jubilee. They are all over social media, Mr. Chairman”, Senator Omanga explained.
When asked about her failure to attend the Parliamentary Group Meeting, Ms. Omanga explained that she did not get the text message inviting her to the Jubilee Parliamentary Group meeting saying that she might have missed such a text as she has more than 7,000 texts in her phone at the moment. But such an explanation may not be enough to save her considering the fact that she has responded to similar texts in the past and her colleagues got the invitation via the same mode of communication and were able to respond by attending the meeting.
Ms. Omanga has been loyal to deputy president William Ruto and is very unlikely to survive the current attempt to oust her from the Jubilee Party. Since the deputy president fell out with president Uhuru Kenyatta, there has been a concerted effort to remove all allies to the deputy president in order to isolate Mr. Ruto and eventually make him resign from the party and consequently shelf his ambition of running for president in 2022.
Mr. Kenyatta is struggling to cling to power past 2022 and has started the BBI project under the pretext of creating a unitary government. But this is a Trojan horse kind of project because the main agenda of BBI is to pressure Kenyans to agree to a possible change to the constitution in order to create the position of a prime minister in which Uhuru Kenyatta will contest for while Raila Odinga will take the position of the President. This is because under the current constitution, Mr. Kenyatta cannot run for president in 2022 and he is very likely to be relegated to retirement should the attempt to change the constitution fails.
The reason why there is hostilities between Uhuru Kenyatta supporters and William Ruto allies is because Ruto is against BBI and sees the project as political “conmanship” meant to deny him a chance to ascend to power. Mr. Ruto has openly expressed his opposition to BBI and has said that nothing will prevent him from running and essentially winning the presidency come 2022. Since the ideological differences between William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta became public, there has been an attempt to isolate the deputy president in an attempt to make him resign by demoting and expelling Jubilee politicians who express their support to the deputy president.
Nominated Senator Philip Prengei was another Jubilee Party Member facing the disciplinary committee today. In his defense, Mr. Prengei explained that he did not have electricity on May 11 to charge his phone and hence could not receive the invite for the meeting. He also said that his village not only has poor phone signal but also poor roads and there was heavy rain on the material day.
Other purportedly rogue Jubilee politicians on the hot seat at the party headquarters disciplinary hearings facing a possible expulsion includes: Alice Milgo, Naomi Jillo Waqo, Falhada Dekow Iman and Senator Mary Yiane.
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