Elgeyo Marakwet senator has admitted that Kenya does not have a functioning opposition to check the excesses of the state.
Writing on Twitter on Wednesday, the governing Jubilee legislator said that he has been left with no choice but to join others and play his role of checking the government.
He held the view that checking the government would be for the good of the country.
"Now that there is no opposition in Kenya to check the government we are left with no choice but to play both the checks and the balances for the good of the nation and for our own success as Jubilee, " the Elgeyo Marakwet senator said.
Following veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga's dramatic handshake with his longtime adversary President Uhuru Kenyatta, there has been a view that there is no effective opposition.
There have been concerns that the handshake has diluted the opposition hence paving the way for the governing Jubilee party to engage in excesses unchecked.
The apparent denial of permission to controversial lawyer Miguna Miguna, who is stranded at a German airport, to return back to Kenya has been cited by a section of Kenyans as an example of a government gone rogue.