Removal of Jubilee Party Majority Whip at the Senate Susan Kihika left the soft-spoken lawyer kicking and punching at her unseen enemies with little success.
In a quickly convened Parliamentary Group (PG) meeting at State House, and chaired by the party leader, President Uhuru Kenyatta, the Nakuru Senator was left whip less.
The volcanic shock waves in the Jubilee party also shook off Majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen (Elgeyo Marakwet) from his prestigious position and left the two Senators standing alone, but tall.
They courageously called for a press briefing on the steps of Parliament and used a turned table to hold up the different media houses microphones as they addressed the nation.
Speaking on the steps of Parliament, the ousted Whip Kihika said:
“Where are the photos?”
“Where is the list of Senators?”
“Because ni network ya wakora.”
“What they are doing, is actually forging signatures.”
“I can tell you for sure, they had 11 Senators from Jubilee in that State House this morning.”
She was poking holes in resolutions of the PG meeting, claiming there was no quorum and whatever the conclusions from the meeting were consequently illegal.
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However, hours later, Sen. Kihika, speaking at the Senate seemed to have accepted that she could not successfully fight what the PG had passed.
And on 12th May 2020, Sen. Kihika on the floor of the house, wearing a blue face mask to fight the spread of corona virus, stood and said:
“As we continue to just bend the law, continue with the fraud and continue with everything; then perhaps we should not continue sitting here and pretending that as a Parliament we are independent, we are not. We are directed from other chambers, from other quarters.”
Kihika reminded the house that the same unfair dose of treatment was administered to Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangulah, when his leader of minority position was handed to Siaya Senator James Orengo.
She warned other Senators that they were also not immune from such unfair treatment, and they could, maybe, in future walk the same path of non-procedural removal from office.
“But that is okay, that is for another day, it will happen to others, so we move on.”
“But we shall fight and continue fighting for our cause and we are sure, and we know, and it is no secret that probably the reason we were replaced in a dictatorial manner is because we are independent-minded. And we shall continue to be independent-minded.”
Kihika and Murkomen are part of the Inua Mama and Tangatanga group of MPs that passionately support the Deputy President, and his ambitions to ascend to the top office in the 2022 elections.
