Youth aligned with Jubilee Party secretary general, Jeremiah Kioni, were accused of kicking East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MP Kanini Kega out of a meeting at the National Museum Center on Thursday, March 9.
Kega, aligned with President William Ruto, was chased away from the podium where political parties discussed democracy.
The youth confronted Kega, forcing him to leave the venue. They also argued that he ought to be serving the nation at EALA's main offices in Tanzania.
In a subsequent press conference, Kega accused Kioni of engineering his unceremonious ejection from the meeting.
"We have never seen something like this. This is not the Jubilee we know," Kega lamented.
Kega claimed that his ejection from the meeting was well-planned ahead of time by those he accused of not being able to entertain democratic values.
"I was invited to the meeting on accounts that I'm the Acting Secretary General of the Jubilee Party and the Director of Elections within the party," Kega explained.
He wondered why the youth would chase away leaders from an event that is meant to discuss democracy in the country.
The EALA Member of Parliament accused Kioni is wrecking the Jubilee Party which is already facing a number of internal and external challenges.
"Jubilee Party was having 170 Members of Parliament, but in the last election, we reduced our membership in the National Assembly to 28," Kega claimed.
While maintaining the claims that he was the legitimate Jubilee Party Secretary General, Kega warned Kioni that he risks facing serious disciplinary actions.
Kega stated that the Jubilee Party lost over 1,000 seats due to poor leadership that did not care about the ordinary members.
He urged ordinary members of the Jubilee Party to ensure that they do not let their political outfit to fall in the wrong hands of the people who do not care about them.
"The behaviour that we have seen today of the former Secretary General to bring along goons to come and disrupt an internationally covered function, is totally unacceptable and demeaning to our party," Kega noted.
