Kang’ata kicked out in fresh wave of Jubilee purge

Jubilee Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju addresses journalists at KICC in Nairobi after Jubilee parliamentary group meeting yesterday. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Murang’a Senator Irungu Kang’ata is the latest casualty in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party purge against MPs perceived to be disloyal, as he was fired from his Majority Whip seat.

And now the guns have been trained on nominated MP David Sankok, another key ally of the Deputy President William Ruto, following Monday’s purge of the nominated senators of similar political leaning. The senators yesterday got a reprieve after the Political Parties’ Tribunal suspended their expulsion.