A bitter fallout has rocked the NASA coalition ahead of
Raila Odinga’s planned swearing-in ceremony next week.
The crumbling, more or less like the proverbial house of
cards, follows the move to force the coalition’s elected leaders to sign
affidavits to affirm their commitment to the oathing ceremony, a move they seem
hesitant to make.
Trouble started
brewing when Amani National Congress Secretary-General Barrack Muluka termed
the move being championed by Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala as blackmail and
advised NASA-allied MPs to resist it
Muluka laid bare the prevalent dictatorship in NASA by
revealing that none of the four affiliate parties were consulted on the signing
of affidavits, watering down its legality.
He warned the move was an assault on the parties’ freedom.
NASA chief executive Norman Magaya and the coalition’s western coordinator
Khalid Njiraini have since descended on Muluka like a pack of wolves, accusing
him of being a Jubilee “sympathiser and sycophant”. Njiraini has demanded that
Muluka apologises to the coalition within 24 hours.
“An institutional document I must sign together with others
must be one whose origin is known, whose origin must be institutional and whose
origins are formal,” Muluka was quoted by The Star Newspaper.
The leaders have apparently told off the secretary general,
saying he is a mole positioning himself to get an appointment in President
Uhuru Kenyatta's administration. The leaders are also opposed to calls for
dialogue between Uhuru and Raila to avert a looming political stand-off. As
earlier reported by The Evening Post, NASA says the swearing-in will go down on
January 30 at the Uhuru Park grounds.
However, the Nairobi county government has said the grounds
will be closed for renovation.
