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Wetangula under siege as political ground shifts

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National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula. [John Muchucha, Standard]

If the unfolding political events in the Western region is anything to go by, National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula is a man under siege.

From the pressure of folding his Ford Kenya party to join the ruling UDA to the emergence of Tawe movement in Western which is being propagated by Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya to pressure of having his ally Susan Nakhumicha resign as Health Cabinet Secretary over the doctors' strike, Wetangula is not sitting pretty.

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