On Friday, May 15, former senators Hassan Omar (Mombasa), Boni Khalwale (Kakamega) and Johnston Muthama (Machakos) held an impromptu press briefing on the current state of politics in the country.
Omar and Muthama, who have been relatively quiet over the last few months, joined Khalwale in airing out their concerns unprecedented political developments in the country especially after the formation of the Jubilee-Kanu coalition.
"Disguised as an emerging coalition arrangement and its resultant Government of National Unity is a consensual and calculated scheme by contracting parties to have a Kenyatta Succeed Uhuru Kenyatta with a promise of a piece of the pie," the leaders stated in a joint statement.
They argued that in the event that the country was subjected to a referendum to enable a powerful Executive Prime Minister, then President Uhuru Kenyatta would be Kenya's Prime Minister.
"In the event of a watered-down version of a Prime Minister, Muhoho Kenyatta, Uhuru's younger brother will be Prime Minister. For this, they also need a president who will play ball, a card dangled to the contracting parties," they claimed.
The former senators added that standing in the way of Kenyatta succeeding a Kenyatta was Deputy President William Ruto whom they alleged had overwhelming support in the Mount Kenya region - Uhuru's backyard.
They opined that to achieve the goal of changing the constitution to enable a Kenyatta Prime Minister, Uhuru needs the Mt Kenya region.
"The severity and extremity of actions to counter Ruto's popularity in Mt. Kenya and his presidential ambition are, an erosion of the constitution and its institutions, wanton illegalities and more specifically the victimisation and coercion of elected leaders from Mt Kenya region is set to get worse.
"We can only urge Kenyans to stand tall, stand firm and defiant in defence of our constitution and our nationhood," the statement further read.
They further claimed that the cessation of normalcy occasioned by the Covid-19 crisis and the virtual paralysis of the institution had provided ample opportunities for constitutional delinquents to steal.
"A case in point is the affront to our constitution and institutions from within the Jubilee Party. Not satisfied with mobilising to fraudulently upset democratic Parliamentary arrangements, the tyrannical chauvinists, subsequently unleashed administrative violence against women nominated senators, citing flimsy and arbitrary grounds to underscore their impunity.
"In so doing, an illegitimate party leadership made a lurid mockery of the party's institutions and the very principle of democracy by contemptuously assaulting the party list the voters endorsed and humiliating its members reminiscent of the dark days of KANU-style dictatorship is back with its offspring and surrogates on both sides of the political divide," they stated.
Muhoho Kenyatta, the younger brother of President Uhuru Kenyatta has avoided the public limelight despite his brother being the Head of State.
He hasn't expressed any ambitions for politics with countable public appearances.
