CORD: We have put Jubilee leaders on their toes

CORD co-principal Raila Odinga (right) with the party’s candidate Elijah Memusi during the campaigns for the Kajiado Central by-election. [Photo: FILE/ STANDARD]

Kenya: Landslide wins in two crucial by-elections, judicial suspension of repressive laws, a besieged President responding to corruption by suspending nearly a third of his Cabinet and increased money to the counties, are some of the gains the Opposition cites as it marks two years of keeping the Jubilee administration on its toes.

Although the three major parties in the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy – ODM, Wiper and Ford Kenya — are jointly battling an image problem with the dismissal of their watchdog committee in Parliament, they have taken credit for the overt action of the President to nail five of his Cabinet Secretaries and 21 top officials of his administration.