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Wetangula and Natembeya fight for supremacy in western region

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Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya and National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula. [File, Standard]

If the unfolding political events in western Kenya are anything to go by, National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula is a man under siege.

From pressure to fold his Ford Kenya party and join the ruling United Democratic Alliance, the emergence of Tawe movement which is being pushed by Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya, and squelching public calls to have his ally Susan Nakhumicha resign as Health Cabinet secretary over the doctors' strike, Wetangula is not sitting pretty.

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