Azimio bipartisan talks team want Keynan dropped from Ruto’s team
The Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition bi-partisan dialogue team has decried the inclusion of Eldas MP Aden Keynan as part of the Kenya Kwanza team, demanding he be dropped.
Keynan was elected on a Jubilee Party ticket and his appointment to represent President William Ruto- led Kenya Kwanza has been received with much criticism.
Speaking at Emory Hotel, Nairobi during the team’s first meeting, the Chair of the Azimio negotiators and Rarieda mp Otiende Amolo said they have already prepared a draft framework of engagement to guide the negotiation process even as he decried “the delay exhibited by our Kenya Kwanza counterparts”
Amolo said the team “don’t know whom to engage since the Kenya Kwanza side has not even selected a co-chair.”
Meanwhile, the Azimio team has named Advocate Paul Mwangi as a joint Secretary and Prof Makau Mutua and Jeremiah Kioni as assisting counsels ahead of the talks.
Other members of the Opposition team include Nairobi Senator and ODM secretary general Edwin Sifuna, Narok Senator Ledama Ole Kina and Kitui Senator Enoch Wambua.
Others are MPs Otiende Amollo (Rarieda), David P’Kosing (Pokot South), Millie Odhiambo (Suba North) and Amina Mnyanzi (Malindi).
On the Kenya Kwanza side, negotiators are Bonny Khalwale (Senator, Kakamega), George Murugara (MP, Tharaka), Essy Okenyuri (Senator) and Mwengi Mutuse (MP, Kibwezi West).
Lydia Haika (Women Rep. Taita Taveta), Hillary Sigei (Senator, Bomet) and Adan Keynan (MP, Eldas) are also members of the team
The two teams will hold talks on the reconstitution of the Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission selection panel.