The Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition on Wednesday gave President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza Alliance a six-day deadline to address issues brought up by the bipartisan talks team, including ceasing interference with the Jubilee Party, failing which they would declare the talks to have failed and take other legal action.
The coalition’s leadership and the bipartisan discussion team, led by Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo, met at the SKM Command Centre in Nairobi after the meeting.
The coalition charged President Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza team with not being serious about addressing important issues, such as lowering the cost of living, auditing the electoral commission servers, reconstituting the polls body, and ceasing interference with its affiliate in a statement read by Democratic Action Party Kenya (DAP-K) leader Eugene Wamalwa.
“The meeting resolved and has given authority to our team in the bipartisan talks to issue a notice of dissolution of the talks in the event Kenya Kwanza will not publicly accede to the interim measures in the next six days in line with the provisions of the framework agreement,” Mr. Wamalwa read. He added that: “thereafter the Azimio Coalition will communicate our next cause of action at a PG (parliamentary group meeting) scheduled for Tuesday next week.”
The alliance also demanded the resignation of the Registrar of Political Parties for his involvement in Jubilee Party disputes.
“The Registrar of Political Parties, Ms. Anne Nderitu, must leave office in view of clear manifestations that she has been co-opted into partisan and illegal schemes by Kenya Kwanza to cripple instead of protect political parties. Anne Nderitu no longer enjoys the confidence of her clients, the political parties,” the coalition said. Mr. Wamalwa said Kenya Kwanza must end efforts to “incapacitate, kill, or take over other parties”.
“We hasten to add that the desire to kill political parties goes beyond the attacks going on and include efforts by the Kenya Kwanza regime to deny funding to Azimio-affiliated political parties,” he said.