Kenya: Kakamega senator Bony Khalwale has blamed his UDF party for suspending him when he is 'disciplined' saying that there was no major factor to it other than his constant fight against corruption in the nation.
Khalwale says his woes in the party begun when he refused to go to bed with Jubilee after the latter won last year's elections and opted to plight his political trade with the opposite CORD for the good of the common man.
The charismatic senator told a packed funeral gathering in Rosterman-Kakamega that he was elected on an opposition ticket and it would be betrayal to his voters if he turned to work with government as his party wished.
"I was elected on an opposition ticket and there was no way I could join government even as my party boss crossed over, the reason I am being fought in UDF is because I chose the path of fighting corruption rather than join alliances for selfish benefit, nothing else my people," he said.
Khalwale's stand not to join government he told the gathering at late Harambee Stars ace Jared Ingutia's funeral, was informed from past experience where politicians from the region like Bsp Omani, Japheth Shamani, Masinde Wawire and Benjamin Makwakwa whose political journeys turned a cropper after they won elections on opposition tickets but betrayed the electorates by joining KANU which then formed government.
He reminded the Luhya nation that it was harder for the community to produce a president if they were to tread the journey to state house banking on the 'luhya unity' slogan which was hijacked by selfish individuals bent on taking the nation to 'suspect' alliances,
"It's hard to produce a president in this new dispensation than it was in the last constitution, we should join hands with communities that we can vote for and they too, can vote for us so we reach the fifty percent plus one margin," he said.
The senator who comes from the Isukha sub tribe of Luhya said the Luhya nation should not spill over the differences between him and Mudavadi to the Isukha and Maragoli sub tribe where Mudavadi hails.
It was prudent that the Luhya nations bond and establishes an alliance that will help them be in government in coming elections, he observed.
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