Mwingi MP John Munuve defends Jubilee alleged
corruption as he resists Wiper charm offensive
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| Kitui Senator David Musila (Left), former Deputy Auditor General Sammy Maluki (Centre) and Mwingi North MP John Munuve ( Right) have a chat during the burial of the retired educationist Mr Willy Nzeka at his home in Ngungani area, Kitui County on October 29 2016 Mr Musila and Mr Munuve differed over the latter’s defection to Jubilee party. PHOTO | MWINGI TIMES. |
“Why are you questioning about the corruption in the Jubilee
government yet you have done nothing about corruption in Kitui County where
millions of public funds have been misused at the expense of our people?”
posed a defiant Mr Munuve.
Mwingi North MP John Munuve has come out to
refute press reports that he will defend his first time seat on Independent ticket
saying he has divorced Wiper and was at home in Jubilee. Will he withstand the
Wiper’s sweeping tide or he will go against the grain successfully?
BY MWINGI TIMES REPORTER
Leaders in
Kitui County stunned mourners when they clashed openly over party issues during
a burial ceremony of a former civil servant on Saturday.
Senator
David Musila sharply differed with Mwingi North MP John Munuve over
the latter’s defection to Jubilee party during the sendoff ceremony of a
retired education officer the late Willy Nzeka at his ancestral home in
Ngungani village, Mumoni sub county.
The Wiper party
chairman seemed to take a different
direction from that of the party leader Kalonzo Musyoka who had during Mashujaa
Day said he had let go the defectors and he no longer needed them. Instead,
Mr Musila pleaded with the renegade MP to return to Wiper party instead of
joining President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee party.
Mr. Musila
told off Mr. Munuve’s unpopular jumping of ship to Jubilee, arguing that the
first time lawmaker risked being voted out in the 2017 elections. “My brother
Munuve I respect you very much and I don’t want to start disagreeing with you
for leaving our party. I plead with you to come back to Wiper
because even in 2013 am the one who gave you the certificate,” Mr Musila said.
NEW HOME
“These
people you see here are in Wiper party and they will not elect you if you go to
Jubilee,” the Kitui Senator warned
Munuve.
Mr Musila
said the integrity of the Jubilee administration was questionable since the national
government had been shrouded with various heists and wondered why Mr. Munuve
had joined such leadership.
“ Why are
you going to Jubilee yet you have seen it is the most corrupt government which
can no longer be trusted by Kenyans?" asked Mr Musila while condemning the
government over the recently revealed theft of Sh. 5 billion in the ministry of
health. He added “ As a community we have our own son whom we believe in and we cannot
support Uhuru regardless of how good he might be. We want to
support Kalonzo Musyoka and form the government so that we can save
our people who are languishing in abject poverty,” Mr. Musila said.
But Mr.
Munuve who had welcomed Mr. Musila to address the mourners in a quick rejoinder
to Mr. Musila dismissed his calls saying he had already divorced
Wiper party and was comfortable in Jubilee. He accused Wiper party of
unfairness, saying that its top leadership tried to rig him out
during the 2013 party primaries.
“I
will not come back to Wiper, I am in Jubilee and I will support President Uhuru
Kenyatta and come 2017 I will vote him back,” said Mr. Munuve.
KETTLE CALLING THE POT BLACK
He hit
back at the Wiper leaders who had asked the voters to reject him for betraying
the party. “You will be in for a rude shock because the people of Mwingi North
will re-elect me not because of the party I will be in, but because of my
development track record,” said Mr. Munuve, maintaining that he would vie
on a Jubilee ticket and not as independent candidate as it had been reported in
the media last week.
The rebel first
time legislator said Wiper leaders had no moral authority to
correct the Jubilee government on matters corruption since the
party had failed to condemn what he termed as “chronic” graft within the
Kitui county government.
“Why are
you questioning about the corruption in the Jubilee government yet you have
done nothing about corruption in Kitui County where millions of
public funds have been misused at the expense of our people?” posed a
defiant Mr Munuve.
The exchange
of words escalated between the two leaders as they laid the wreath on the
casket of the late retired educationist who was former classmate
and primary school teacher to Mr. Musila and Mr. Munuve respectively.
Even after
leaving the podium the duo continued with fierce exchange of
utterances for some minutes before they calmed to join other pall
bearers in carrying the body to the graveyard.
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