Members of Parliament from the Jubilee party are now threatening to leave Azimio la Umoja Coalition party over the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) positions.
The legislators say they will leave if one of their own will not be allowed to sit in the PSC
The MPs are demanding one of the three positions set aside for the minority in the commission.
On Wednesday,Senate minority whip Fatuma Dullo’s name was removed from the list and replaced by Nyamira Senator Okongo Omogeni.
“We were not coerced to join ODM in Azimio, we joined willingly and if they mistreat jubilee members we will leave willingly because we have experienced firsthand the conmanship, politics of deceit, and political banditry by our brothers in Azimio” said Laikipia North MP Sarah Korere.
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Korere says they are disgruntled by how they have been treated in the coalition, even during the formation of committees in parliament.
Eldas MP Adan Keynan says they will be holding a parliamentary group meeting to chart a way forward.
“After ODM we are the second largest party in the coalition, so it is not something that we are begging, it’s our right, so we are asking the Azimio leadership to fast track these, call for a meeting and allow Jubilee to nominate a candidate to the PSC because we are not going to be flower girls to anybody,” he said.
Jubilee had first proposed Sirisa MP John Waluke to the commission.
“Waluke was a first-choice to join PSC, nobody wants to take responsibility that he was short-changed.
“Up to now we are asking what happened, that is the question we are asking, no one should take advantage and shortchange Jubilee” Keynan said.
Dullo was yesterday kicked out of the nominees to the PSC by the minority in the Senate, a decision that was endorsed by the Senate.