{"id":7885,"date":"2020-05-16T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T16:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=7885"},"modified":"2020-05-16T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T16:38:14","slug":"move-to-replace-murkomen-kihika-welcomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/move-to-replace-murkomen-kihika-welcomed","title":{"rendered":"Move to replace Murkomen, Kihika welcomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Samburu leaders from Kanu have welcomed President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s move to replace former Senate majority leadership Kipchumba Murkomen (<strong>pictured<\/strong>) and Susan Kihika.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Samburu women representative Maison Leshoomo and Samburu West MP\u00a0Naisula Lesuuda said the changes will help the President\u00a0implement his development agenda.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lesuuda said, \u201cThe same people who are party members are fighting everything\u00a0the President wants to do.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWhen the President signed a unity deal with opposition leader Raila Odinga,\u00a0the same people from his party were the ones derailing the agenda of bringing Kenyans together.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She added that Uhuru has every\u00a0right\u00a0to crack the whip and put people in positions where they will help him perform better.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Leshoomo and Lesuuda\u00a0pledged that as MPs they will support the government and Uhuru in the National Assembly and called for their counterparts in the Senate to do the same.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cAs Kanu we are in government. We have worked with the government since 2017. The marriage between Jubilee and Kanu have only been formalised through papers, there is nothing new as at now,\u201d Leshoomo said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She added that the Kanu-Jubilee deal is sealed and those uncomfortable should rethink their options.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lesuuda and Leshoomo, both Kanu members, asked politicians\u00a0irked by the decision to stop throwing blame on other leaders.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She added that anyone is free to take any position and those left out should not politicise party decisions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Samburu leaders from Kanu have welcomed President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s move to replace former Senate majority leadership Kipchumba Murkomen (pictured) and Susan Kihika. Samburu women representative Maison Leshoomo and Samburu West MP\u00a0Naisula Lesuuda said the changes will help the President\u00a0implement his development agenda. Lesuuda said, \u201cThe same people who are party members are fighting everything\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[696,362,242,444],"class_list":["post-7885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-kipchumba-murkomen","tag-president-uhuru-kenyatta","tag-raila-odinga","tag-susan-kihika"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Move to replace Murkomen, Kihika welcomed - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Samburu leaders from Kanu have welcomed President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s move to replace former Senate majority leadership Kipchumba Murkomen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/move-to-replace-murkomen-kihika-welcomed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Move to replace Murkomen, Kihika welcomed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Samburu leaders from Kanu have welcomed President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s move to replace former Senate majority leadership Kipchumba Murkomen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/move-to-replace-murkomen-kihika-welcomed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-16T16:38:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/move_to_replace_murk5ebf9ba305019.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/move-to-replace-murkomen-kihika-welcomed#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/move-to-replace-murkomen-kihika-welcomed\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Move to replace Murkomen, Kihika welcomed\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-16T16:38:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/move-to-replace-murkomen-kihika-welcomed\"},\"wordCount\":237,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/move-to-replace-murkomen-kihika-welcomed#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/move_to_replace_murk5ebf9ba305019.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Kipchumba Murkomen\",\"President Uhuru Kenyatta\",\"Raila Odinga\",\"Susan Kihika\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/move-to-replace-murkomen-kihika-welcomed#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/move-to-replace-murkomen-kihika-welcomed\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/move-to-replace-murkomen-kihika-welcomed\",\"name\":\"Move to replace Murkomen, Kihika welcomed - 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