• The former Chief Justice was reacting after Jubilee Party led by President Uhuru Kenyatta signed a new political deal with KANU.
• This was after a post-election coalition pact signed last week that saw Senators Murkomen and Kihika replaced as Majority Leader and Chief Whip respectively.
We must deny Kanu another 41 years of our lives, former Chief justice Willy Mutunga has warned.
Mutunga was responding to a cartoon by Gado who Drew a picture of a politician and captioned it "Kanu will rule for 100 years."
"Only 59 years of pain, tears, deaths, poverty, oppression, sweat, and suffering," Mutunga said on Wednesday.
"Enough surely must be enough... We must deny them the other 41 years."
The former Chief Justice was reacting after the Jubilee Party led by President Uhuru Kenyatta signed a new political deal with Kanu.
This was after a post-election coalition pact signed last week that saw Senators Kipchumba Murkomen and Susan Kihika replaced as Majority Leader and Chief Whip respectively in the senate.
Mutunga's comment drew a reaction from Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi who said the 41 years will not be consensual.
"CJ when you say "we must deny them the other 41 years" you imply their loading over the rest of Kenyans is consensual...it has never been, and the other 41 years will not be...," he said.
No one has lorded it over anyone. Citizens get leaders they deserve. Quality of leaders we get is a microcosm of the quality of the voters that hoist them to power. The question of @MikeSonko is a case in point. Let us not blame leaders. We should rather blame ourselves.
— Kimathi Mwirichia (@kim_mwirichia) May 13, 2020
Your two minutes ruling in 2013 is haunting you......you had the best chance to change the course of the country but you chose otherwise.
— Rege (@rege_david) May 13, 2020
This is revisionism, there have been good things too though more of bad and many missteps. One of the missteps was creation of a presumed independent apex court and installed one of the most "independent" thinkers who conveniently buckled under pressure at the first instance.
— #ABD (@soundsofblaknes) May 13, 2020
Kenyans are stupid. It's that simple. They will vote how Raila and Uhuru tell them too. They would vote Gideon in even if Kivutha Kibwana was running against him
— 'Rateng' (@kenyaone) May 13, 2020
Gideon Moi will be president by all means the guns are ready , the graves have been dug . The plans are there just time to excute them. Just poked your fingers on Twitter and that is it pic.twitter.com/mxui4WwKxk
— Ngugi wa Kamau (@ndenderu1960) May 13, 2020
Allies of the Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday morning moved to court to challenge the new political deal.
The case challenging the post-election coalition pact signed last week on Friday was filed by Hillary Kosgei.
At the same time, Jubilee Party deputy secretary-general Caleb Kositany delivered a protest letter to the Registrar of Political Parties Ann Nderitu.
The Soy constituency MP told Nderitu that the coalition agreement is “null and void” since it was not in line with the JP constitution and the Political Parties Act.
The Political Parties Dispute Tribunal has issued interim orders stopping the Jubilee Party from executing its coalition agreement with Kanu.
After an appeal by the Jubilee Party Deputy Secretary-General Caleb Kositany, Nakuru Senator Susan Kihika, and the National Assembly Majority Chief Whip Benjamin Washiali, the tribunal ruled that matter be certified as urgent.
"In the interest of justice an interim order be and is hereby issued declaring that any decision or action founded on the coalition agreement purportedly signed by the two parties and deposited on May 4 is null, void and has no effect," the ruling read in part.