The raging civil war in Ford Kenya that reached its pinnacle on Sunday 31st May 2020 with the announced ouster of the Party leader Senator Moses Wetangula by the MPs Wafula Wamunyinyi installed as interim Party leader, and Dr. Eseli Simiyu the Party Secretary General and Bungoma Governor Wycliffe Wangamati led faction-and a rejoinder the same day by Senator Wetangula who announced the replacement of Dr. Eseli Simiyu as the Party’s Secretary General with Dr. Chris Wamalwa, MP for Kiminini-is destined to play out this week in its critical phase when each of the factions seeks to get the changes made by the Registrar of Political Parties and the National Assembly reconvenes and the Political Parties reconstitute the various committees and leadership roles of chairmen of committees majority and minority lol eaders and the Chief and Deputy whips in that Assembly.
The civil war would most likely end up before the Political Parties Tribunal and the Courts. As things stand the Hon. Wamunyinyi, Dr. Eseli, Governor Wangamati faction by its public homage to COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli on Friday 29th May 2020 has leverage with the Registrar of political parties, and who knows where else?
West Media can surmise that the next frontier of the civil war in the party will play out in Bungoma Country Assembly where the Senator Moses Wetangula allied MCAs will seek to impeach Governor Wycliffe Wangamati. President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Madaraka Day speech made it clear beyond any shadow of doubt that the “fixing” of the Constitution of Kenya is a priority for him.
The turbulence and the turmoil in Ford Kenya is part of the Building Bridges Initiative ground work to the expected Constitutional reconstruction. The happenings in Ford Kenya certainly portend difficult times ahead for the Counties of Bungoma and Trans Nzoia where it has significant following and elected leader, who include MCAs, MPs and the Governors.
Governance in Kenya remains the trading arms, enterprises of those who wield power in the parties that have elected leaders and make no mistake, the civil war in Ford Kenya is not about the ordinary citizen, the mwenyenchi, but these are fights for personal aggrandizement, egos, cronies and access to corruption. The tragedy is that the protagonists in the tussle are fighting proxy wars for the known masters who are not from Western Kenya. Talk of your so called leaders fighting on who should be the auctioneer, the broker of the Soul of the noble citizens of our homeland to the highest bidders from outside our homeland.
The tempest, the turmoil in the fight for the soul of our region has started in earnest for the Great Auction in 2022. Who shall save the soul of the Luhya nation.