Jubilee's tribulations speak volumes about our political parties

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta. [Samson Wire, Standard]

In 2016, I established the first chapter of the Jubilee Alliance Party (JAP) in Mombasa. JAP was the precursor of the Jubilee Party. In the next two years, I was part of the team that set up the Jubilee Party under the chairmanship of Kiraitu Murungi and Noah Wekesa.

I was part of the team that worked on the future strategy of the party. It was a great vision; to build a party that would unite Kenyans across the tribal divide and give Kenyans an option between two monolithic parties like the Democrats and the Republicans in the United States. In our last strategy meeting in Naivasha in early 2017, I stood up and demanded reassurance that this new party would not be a Kikuyu-Kalenjin party, but for all of us.