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Gideon Moi, Rutto Join URP Rebels In South Rift, plan rallies to fight DP
BY KIPLANG'AT KIRUI
September 18, 2015
KANU chairman Gideon Moi, governors Isaac Rutto of Bomet and Kerichos Paul Chepkwony are planning a series of meetings in the Rift Valley to fight Deputy President William Ruto. The first meeting will be held today in Emurua Dikiir constituency, Narok, where the government forcibly evicted locals from the Mau Forest. The group will be raising money to help buy buses for the Emurua Dikirr and Ndamama secondary schools in Emurua Dikirr constituency.
During todays visit to the South Rift, the three will be joined by a host of URP rebels, including Kuresoi MP Zakayo Cheruiyot and Emurua Dikirr MP Johana Ngeno. Ngeno has previously exchanged bitter words with the DP after Ruto accused him of posing for a picture outside a burning house to show that government officials were burning houses of the Mau Forest evictees.
The Baringo senator and the two governors have been fighting the Deputy President politically and are said to be planning to join one party or work together under different parties to lock Ruto out of the South Rift at the 2017 general election. Gideon and his group skipped the DPs prayer meeting in Kiptororo, a Kalenjin shrine, two weeks ago, which was attended by about 100 Jubilee MPs.
This will be the first time Gideon is heading to the region after Ruto accused him, Governor Rutto and President Uhuru Kenyattas political adviser Joshua Kuttuny of praying for him to be jailed at The Hague. The last time the Kanu boss and his group met was in April, during a breakfast meeting at the Fairmont Maasai Mara Safari Club, Narok county. Narok Senator Stephen ole Ntutu attended the meeting, but it remains unclear whether he will attend todays gathering as well.
Gideon is using the event to popularise his party and himself ahead of the 2017 general election, where he plans to either go for President or be a running mate. But yesterday, Ngeno, the host of todays meeting, denied that politics was on the cards.
This is purely fundraising for the students of Emurua Dikirr and not politics, said Ngeno.
Kanu secretary general Nick Salat said they will use the opportunity to market Kanu in the region.
Of course there has been discontent in the region because of the move by the URP leadership to dissolve and join JAP. For quite some time, we have been making serious inroads in Rift Valley and the entire country and so this is another chance for us to build on the gains, said Salat.
Governors Rutto and Chepkwony have accused the DP of using some URP MPs to undermine their leadership and opposed the folding of their URP party. The DP wants URP folded and its members to join up with those from TNA under the new Jubilee Alliance Party.
We joined Jubilee following consultation between URP and TNA, but now we are being told to transit to JAP without consultation and those of a divergent view should ship out, stated Rutto.
Cheruiyot said JAP is a brainchild of TNA, which wants to swallow URP and control it.
Gideon Moi, Rutto Join URP Rebels In South Rift, plan rallies to fight DP | The Star
BY KIPLANG'AT KIRUI
September 18, 2015
KANU chairman Gideon Moi, governors Isaac Rutto of Bomet and Kerichos Paul Chepkwony are planning a series of meetings in the Rift Valley to fight Deputy President William Ruto. The first meeting will be held today in Emurua Dikiir constituency, Narok, where the government forcibly evicted locals from the Mau Forest. The group will be raising money to help buy buses for the Emurua Dikirr and Ndamama secondary schools in Emurua Dikirr constituency.
During todays visit to the South Rift, the three will be joined by a host of URP rebels, including Kuresoi MP Zakayo Cheruiyot and Emurua Dikirr MP Johana Ngeno. Ngeno has previously exchanged bitter words with the DP after Ruto accused him of posing for a picture outside a burning house to show that government officials were burning houses of the Mau Forest evictees.
The Baringo senator and the two governors have been fighting the Deputy President politically and are said to be planning to join one party or work together under different parties to lock Ruto out of the South Rift at the 2017 general election. Gideon and his group skipped the DPs prayer meeting in Kiptororo, a Kalenjin shrine, two weeks ago, which was attended by about 100 Jubilee MPs.
This will be the first time Gideon is heading to the region after Ruto accused him, Governor Rutto and President Uhuru Kenyattas political adviser Joshua Kuttuny of praying for him to be jailed at The Hague. The last time the Kanu boss and his group met was in April, during a breakfast meeting at the Fairmont Maasai Mara Safari Club, Narok county. Narok Senator Stephen ole Ntutu attended the meeting, but it remains unclear whether he will attend todays gathering as well.
Gideon is using the event to popularise his party and himself ahead of the 2017 general election, where he plans to either go for President or be a running mate. But yesterday, Ngeno, the host of todays meeting, denied that politics was on the cards.
This is purely fundraising for the students of Emurua Dikirr and not politics, said Ngeno.
Kanu secretary general Nick Salat said they will use the opportunity to market Kanu in the region.
Of course there has been discontent in the region because of the move by the URP leadership to dissolve and join JAP. For quite some time, we have been making serious inroads in Rift Valley and the entire country and so this is another chance for us to build on the gains, said Salat.
Governors Rutto and Chepkwony have accused the DP of using some URP MPs to undermine their leadership and opposed the folding of their URP party. The DP wants URP folded and its members to join up with those from TNA under the new Jubilee Alliance Party.
We joined Jubilee following consultation between URP and TNA, but now we are being told to transit to JAP without consultation and those of a divergent view should ship out, stated Rutto.
Cheruiyot said JAP is a brainchild of TNA, which wants to swallow URP and control it.
Gideon Moi, Rutto Join URP Rebels In South Rift, plan rallies to fight DP | The Star
