Drama in UDA as ‘Founding members’ Name New Secretary General, Ousting Cleophas Malala
Drama in UDA as ‘Founding members’ Name New Secretary General, Ousting Cleophas Malala: Led by Lawyer Joe Khalende, the group calling themselves ‘founding members of UDA’ accuses Malala of sabotaging the party’s progress and the Broad-Based Government formed by party leader President William Ruto and his ODM counterpart Raila Odinga.
Khalende stated,”Malala has abdicated his role and duty as the SG of the ruling party. The critical role of the SG of the UDA party is the spokesperson of the party; he communicates and initiates meetings on behalf of the party. Clearly, Malala has joined our opponents. He is supporting the TAWE movement and agendas which contradict the ruling party,”
“He has gone against our party leader…he is on the forefront against the formation of a broad-based government and I am here to confirm that he is no longer the SG of the UDA party. I Joe Khalende will be taking over as the SG of the UDA party.”
The members say that Malala has failed in his mandate of running the party processes and conducting the grassroots elections which have in the past been marred by chaos and court orders.
“The conversation to kick out the notorious man has been ongoing within the party. All the party organs are aware and we are all in line. We issued a show-cause letter to Malala, but he has frustrated the process. The party has been doing massive grassroots recruitment and election, he has frustrated the process,” said Khalende.
“Going forward, the grassroots elections will go on as planned, recruitment and rebranding will continue, and this is the best opportunity for us UDA members to extend an olive branch to our brothers In ODM and welcome them in government so that we build serikali pamoja and lift the lives of Kenyans in this broad-based government led by Ruto and Raila,” he added.
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