Monday, February 28, 2011

PNU MPs split over calls for snap polls

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Three Murang’a MPs have differed sharply with their PNU colleagues calling for the pullout from the coalition government referring to them as insincere and selfish.
Elius mbau of Maragwa, Maina Kamau of Kandara and Kiharu’s Muturi Mwangi lashed out at their colleagues accusing them of being hungry for power. He said their calls are motivated by the false notion that they would be appointed to ministerial positions currently being held by the ODM party.
Speaking at Kandara during the burial of the brother to immediate former MP Joshua Toro, the legislators said even if there is a provision in the National Accord which empowers the President to reconstitute the Cabinet if one partner in the coalition pulls
out, the country was not ready for elections. “The National Accord empowers the President to reconstitute the Cabinet but the provision does not mean the end of the grand coalition,” Mbau said.
He wondered what has cropped in the mind of some leaders in the party of national unity saying that general elections are out of question as there was no credible body to conduct the polls.
Mbau noted it is wrong for politicians to put the country into an election mood instead of engaging in development matters adding that partisan interest are to blame for the myriad problems facing the grand coalition government.
The MPs praised President Kibaki for withdrawing the controversial list of four top officials of the Judiciary. “President Kibaki will be remembered as a courageous man who had national interest at heart. He revoked his own nomination list to show that Kenya is big than everyone,” Mbau said.

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