{"id":8496,"date":"2020-05-26T19:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T19:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2020-05-26T19:06:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T19:06:45","slug":"olekina-makes-peace-with-odm-surrenders-cpaic-chairmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/olekina-makes-peace-with-odm-surrenders-cpaic-chairmanship","title":{"rendered":"Olekina makes peace with ODM, surrenders CPAIC chairmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Narok Senator Ledama Olekina<strong>\u00a0(pictured)<\/strong>\u00a0has made peace with ODM after holding a meeting with party boss Raila Odinga at Capitol Hill, in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Odinga posted on his Facebook page confirming the deal between the party and the legislator.\u201cNarok Senator Ledama ole Kina has this morning agreed to withdraw the case he had filed against ODM over the Senate Public Accounts Committee chairmanship, surrendered the seat and apologised. In return, I\u2019ve instructed the party to reverse the decision to de-whip the Senator&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If the outcome of the meeting is anything to go by, Senator Olekina will now relinquish the Chairperson of Public Accounts and Investment Committee position that he was on a warpath against the party to salvage. It remains a guess on who the party will front to occupy the position after the tussle.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes afterJustice Weldon Korir of the High Court temporarily stopped Olekina&#8217;s removal from the position\u00a0on May 11, after his party challenged his election.Justice Korir ruled that unless he issues\u00a0orders, the petition may be overtaken by events. The ruling came days after Senate Minority Leader James Orengo tabled a notice May 6, 2020, disapproving Olekina election as the CPAIC chairperson.<\/p>\n<p>The Siaya Senator also wrote to the Senate Speaker Kenneth Lusaka notifying him of party\u2019s intention to de-whip Narok legislator apart from ousting him as the committee chairperson.<\/p>\n<p>Orengo\u2019s notice read: \u201cIn accordance with the Senate Standing Order 190, I hereby give notice of the discharge and removal of Senator Ledama Ole Kina from the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee and the Senate Business Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fight for the chairmanship\u00a0of the Senate committee was a three-horse race between Senator Olekina and his Kisii and Migori counterparts Prof Sam Ongeri and Ochillo Ayacko respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Olekina told KTN News on May 7 that he won the election with 14 votes and got the blessing of his competitors, Prof Ongeri and Mr Ayacko\u00a0who stepped down for unknown reasons.He said that it was after his declaration as the winner that things turned south. The lawmaker accused Orengo of meddling in the elections and trying to arm-twist him to step down contrary to his wishes.<\/p>\n<p>Olekina lashed at Orengo for accusing him of betraying the party-a situation he said was not true because they did not have a deal on who to be picked for the position.\u201cWhen someone who was not part of elections came to dispute that election, it really saddened me,\u201d he said.He refuted claims that he was joining\u00a0Tangatanga faction of Jubileewhich is allied to Deputy President William Ruto.<\/p>\n<p>Olekina said that he reached out to legislators drawn from other parties to get the votes but that\u00a0did not change his party affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI, Linturi and Wamatangi served in the past committee and they knew how capable I was in analysing reports from the Auditor General,\u201d he told KTN News.<\/p>\n<p>He would then make an appeal to his party leader to return the favour by standing by him to secure the senate post.\u201cWhen he said his election was stolen, I supported him and I believed that now I have to call upon my party leader and tell him that my election is being stolen. Let me not follow suit, support me for the future of this nation,\u201d he said, while being interviewed by K24 TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Narok Senator Ledama Olekina\u00a0(pictured)\u00a0has made peace with ODM after holding a meeting with party boss Raila Odinga at Capitol Hill, in Nairobi. Mr Odinga posted on his Facebook page confirming the deal between the party and the legislator.\u201cNarok Senator Ledama ole Kina has this morning agreed to withdraw the case he had filed against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[3369,3811,3810,564,242],"class_list":["post-8496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-cpaic","tag-ledama-olekina","tag-narok-senator","tag-odm","tag-raila-odinga"],"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>Olekina makes peace with ODM, surrenders CPAIC chairmanship - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Narok Senator Ledama Olekina\u00a0(pictured)\u00a0has made peace with ODM after holding a meeting with party boss Raila Odinga at Capitol Hill, in Nairobi.\" \/>\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\/olekina-makes-peace-with-odm-surrenders-cpaic-chairmanship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Olekina makes peace with ODM, surrenders CPAIC chairmanship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Narok Senator Ledama Olekina\u00a0(pictured)\u00a0has made peace with ODM after holding a meeting with party boss Raila Odinga at Capitol Hill, in Nairobi.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/olekina-makes-peace-with-odm-surrenders-cpaic-chairmanship\" \/>\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=\"2020-05-26T19:06:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/olekina_makes_peace_5eccda5f72952.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"686\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"429\" \/>\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=\"3 minutes\" \/>\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\/olekina-makes-peace-with-odm-surrenders-cpaic-chairmanship#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/olekina-makes-peace-with-odm-surrenders-cpaic-chairmanship\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Olekina makes peace with ODM, surrenders CPAIC chairmanship\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-26T19:06:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/olekina-makes-peace-with-odm-surrenders-cpaic-chairmanship\"},\"wordCount\":568,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/olekina-makes-peace-with-odm-surrenders-cpaic-chairmanship#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/05\/olekina_makes_peace_5eccda5f72952.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"CPAIC\",\"Ledama Olekina\",\"Narok Senator\",\"ODM\",\"Raila Odinga\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/olekina-makes-peace-with-odm-surrenders-cpaic-chairmanship#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/olekina-makes-peace-with-odm-surrenders-cpaic-chairmanship\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/olekina-makes-peace-with-odm-surrenders-cpaic-chairmanship\",\"name\":\"Olekina makes peace with ODM, surrenders CPAIC chairmanship - 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