Former Kakamega Senator, Cleophas Malala, is no longer the Secretary General of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party under President William Ruto.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
Joe Khalende, the chairman of the founding members of the UDA party, who addressed the media on Tuesday, July 30, accused Malala of abdicating his role and his duty as the SG of the ruling party.
The SG is the spokesperson of the party and is charged with communicating as well as initiating meetings on behalf of the party.
Khalende further accused Malala of dumping the party in favour of the opposition and supporting the agendas which go against the ruling party.
“He has gone against our party leader. He is at the forefront against the formation of a broad-based government. I’m here to confirm that he is no longer the Secretary General of the UDA party,” Khalende announced, adding that he would take over as the SG.
“Going forward, the UDA party is going back to its members. It was formed as a people-centred party, it was not formed on an individual within the party. We were formed as UDA to ensure that if we take over power, we initiate the bottom-up economic principle, but clearly, Cleophas Malala has gone against the UDA party.”
Khalende went on to reveal that going forward, the grassroots elections will go on as planned and rebranding as well as recruitment will continue.
Furthermore, according to Khalende, the opportunity was ripe for UDA members to extend an olive branch to members of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party “and tell them that we are welcoming them in government, they come so that we can build the government together, we lift the lives of Kenyans from the bottom going up in the plan that the President and Raila Odinga have formulated in the broad-based government.”
“Going forward, anybody who will transact business, who will do business with one Cleophas Malala, he will be doing business on his own, not as the Secretary General of UDA,” Khalende added.
The founding member further claimed that the party had issued Malala a show-cause letter last month on why he has persistently failed to honour the party ideals, which he failed to honour, and allegedly frustrated the process of disciplining him within the party.
“They have gone ahead with other cartels within the party to be getting fake court orders to stop the party grassroots elections. So clearly, he has been a man on the run but trying to hide his plans by frustrating the true process of ensuring that we have a good election and new leadership within the party,” Khalende added.
Malala was yet to respond to the announcement by the founding members regarding his ouster by the time of publishing this story…CONTINUE READING>>
