CORD in sabotage plot, Jubilee leaders claim

Kandara MP Alice Wahome, Meru Senator Kiraitu Murungi and Dagoretti South MP Dennis Waweru at Parliament Buildings Tuesday. [PHOTO: BONIFACE OKENDO/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: Central Kenya legislators now claim that CORD is working on a strategy to bring down the Jubilee administration before the next General Election.

The leaders, under the auspices of Central Kenya Parliamentary Group, claimed the Opposition had developed a scheme to hound out of office key individuals in the Jubilee administration to weaken it ahead of the 2017 elections.

Led by the caucus patron Meru Senator Kiraitu Murungi, the leaders said the clamour by CORD for removal from office of Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru and now the push for a motion of impeachment against Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi, were part of the "grand strategy" to sabotage President Uhuru Kenyatta's the administration.

"We have no doubt that come 2016, they (CORD leaders) will be knocking at the doors of State House looking for the President," said Kiraitu during a press conference at Parliament Buildings Tuesday.

The leaders urged their Jubilee counterparts to shield the targeted leaders from the "backward political forces", by voting against the impeachment motion against Kaimenyi which is due in the National Assembly this afternoon.

The Meru Senator was accompanied by Embu Senator Lenny Kivuti (secretary), Dagoretti South MP Dennis Waweru (chairman), group whip Peter Weru (Mathira), MPs Alice Wahome (Kandara) Kanini Kega (Kieni) and Joseph Manje (Kajiado North).