{"id":8141,"date":"2020-05-20T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=8141"},"modified":"2020-05-20T19:42:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:42:38","slug":"sabina-chege-jubilee-purge-targets-party-rebels-uhurus-detractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/sabina-chege-jubilee-purge-targets-party-rebels-uhurus-detractors","title":{"rendered":"Sabina Chege: Jubilee purge targets party rebels, Uhuru&#8217;s detractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"standard-content \">\n<div class=\"content \"><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Muranga Woman Rep Sabina Chege has defended the ongoing purge in the ruling Jubilee party targeting Deputy President William Ruto&#8217;s allies in both the Senate and National Assembly, saying it was long overdue.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content \">Chege (<strong>pictured<\/strong>) said with all the insults, disrespect and insubordination directed at President Uhuru Kenyatta, from the DP allies, it was high time he cracked the whip.Speaking on Tuesday night during a local TV interview, Chege said President Uhuru is only giving Tangatanga leaders what they have been calleding for.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content \">\n\u201cThese leaders have been running around the country daring and insulting the President, but when he takes action, they are now crying,\u201d she said.She said Tangatanga leader started disobeying President Uhuru after a Parliamentary Group meeting in Naivasha early this year where they resolved to campaign against him in his Mt Kenya backyard.\u201cThey moved around Mt Kenya region telling people how President Uhuru didn\u2019t even campaign for himself\u00a0 and that it is them who helped him, that was below the belt attack,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content \">The County MP defended the last Monday Senate PG meeting at State House where senators voted to remove Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen (Elgeyo Marakwet) and Majority Whip Susan Kihika (Nakuru), saying there was nothing wrong with the process.\u201cLet them be sincere, even when people were being elected to these Parliamentary committees, we were called at State House,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content \">\n<strong>DP targeted<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"content \">However, Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichungwa disagreed with Chege, challenging her to tell Kenyans what Ruto has done to warrant all the persecution.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content \">\u201cThese fights are directed DP Ruto, I am yet to know why they are so cruel with him, what has he done?\u201d he posed.He accused the Kieleweke leaders of hypocrisy and out to mislead the President for their selfish interest.He wondered why Ruto was being accused of campaigning for 2022, while the same people were also running around the country de-campaigning him.<\/div>\n<div class=\"content \">\n&#8220;When they run around the country badmouthing the DP, it is not early campaign, but when Ruto goes somewhere to inspect development projects, it is early campaigns, this is hypocrisy,\u201d said the Kikuyu legislator.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content \">When asked about the ongoing purge and what he will do when they come for him\u00a0being the chair of the powerful Budget Committee in the National Assembly, Ichungwa said he is not bothered at all ,adding that\u00a0he has served well and his term due to\u00a0end in September.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content \">\u201cI don\u2019t care if I am removed or not it does not worry, my term is ending in September with or without removal,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content \"><strong>Kindiki removal<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"content \">Ichungwa condemned the impending removal of Senate Deputy Speaker Kithure Kindiki saying the law has not been followed.He blasted the current Jubilee Senate leadership for ignoring the Constitution and House Standing Orders to punish perceived enemies politically.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"content \">\u201cThis is an overthrow of the constitutional order in this country if discussing conducts of a senator the law must be followed with the member being given three-day notice, which has not been done,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Muranga Woman Rep Sabina Chege has defended the ongoing purge in the ruling Jubilee party targeting Deputy President William Ruto&#8217;s allies in both the Senate and National Assembly, saying it was long overdue. 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