Azimio coalition has unveiled its five members who will represent it in the proposed fresh talks with the Kenya Kwanza side.
The delegation will be led by Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka with Minority leader Opiyo Wandayi, Eugene Wamalwa, Okong'o Omogeni and Malindi MP Amina Mnyanzi as the other members.
The Kenya Kwanza side is also expected to unveil their team of five members for the ten-member committee.
"Our position remains that no party to these negotiations can claim a right to determine for the other what to raise and what not to raise," Azimio said in a statement on Monday.
The talks will be facilitated by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Azimio said they will respect the issues that the Kenya Kwanza side will raise during the talks and expect them to do the same with their issues.
The Opposition outfit said the team has instructions to raise five substantive issues.
These are the cost of living, audit of the 2022 elections, bipartisan reconstitution of the IEBC, inclusivity in national affairs and respect of political parties in line with the Constitution.
"Azimio is keen on a time-bound programme that should take one month beginning from August 1, 2023," the Raila Odinga-led coalition said.
In a statement on Saturday, Wandayi said they had reached the decision for fresh talks with the government after consultations with the Kenya Kwanza side under Obasanjo's facilitation "to resolve our differences amicably for the benefit of all our people".
Under the agreement, the ten member committee was to be constituted of five members from each side of the talks.
These would include four members from outside Parliament - two from each side- leaders of Majority and Minority from the National Assembly and four additional Members of Parliament -two from each side.
This therefore means Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung'wah is an automatic inclusion in the Kenya Kwanza team as the country awaits the government side to unveil its negotiators.
Ichung'wah on Saturday released what he termed as a joint statement in which he listed four issues he claimed they had agreed with Azimio would form the agenda of the talks.
"The committee shall be seized with the following five issues; reconstitution of IEBC; implementation of two thirds gender rule, entrenchment of constituency development fund, establishment and entrenchment of the Office of the Leader of the Opposition and embedment of the office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary."
Azimio, however, disowned the joint statement terming it one-sided. The statement was signed only by Ichung'wah.
"We disown the statement by Ichung'wah. Azimio had nothing to do with it. Its contents were those of Kenya Kwanza, their wish list," Raila said in a statement.
Raila said the issues listed by Ichung'wah were never agreed upon during a meeting with Kenya Kwanza under Obasanjo's facilitation.
"The initial meeting was to prepare the ground for honest discussions of issues we have been raising and those that Kenya Kwanza feels like raising. The meeting was therefore a talk about envisaged talks," he said.
