Wetangula Reveals How People's Assembly Will Operate in Jubilee Strongholds

Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula has revealed the strategy that the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition will use to operate the people's assembly in Jubilee strongholds. 

Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, the NASA leader disclosed that in areas where the opposition did not have numbers in the county assemblies, they would engage directly with the people.

"Where we are thin or nil on numbers we shall exercise our authority under Article 1 of the constitution where the people take the sovereignty to organize themselves and do what is legitimate constitutionally.

"And by this way, the people can change the country," he disclosed.

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He added that he had been contacted by youth in Central Kenya expressing their interest in participating in the people's assemblies.

"I have received calls from several Central Kenya counties where young people are already organizing themselves to form those assemblies and to push for a meaningful, proper and credible processes of electing leaders in the country," he conveyed.

Wetangula further stated that in counties where they had a number of elected representatives in the assemblies, they would table the motions for discussion.

"In areas where we have numbers we recognize the issue of representation and we will give county assemblies opportunities to debate because they will be part of the composition of the assembly," he explained.

On Tuesday, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party Director Philip Etale shared a memo where the NASA legislators will be required to table a motion in the various assemblies that will push the opposition coalition's agenda.

Among the new orders, the parliamentarians have been directed to table a motion in the August House to facilitate the formation of a People's Assembly to discuss and determine the affairs of the country.

"The convention shall make decisions and recommendations to achieve democracy, constitutionalism and to restore legality and will form any bodies or organize other platforms for purposes of attaining its declared objectives," the statement read in part.

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