Gatundu South member of parliament Moses Kuria has railed against attempts to ensure that election losers are given a role in government through the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI).
Speaking in Thika, Kiambu county, Kuria said that those who lose elections should play the role of the opposition.
The lawmaker held the view that no democracy would function properly without a strong opposition to check against the excesses of the government of the day.
He told those who want to get positions in government after losing elections that that would not happen.
"The one who will govern this country is the one who will win, the one who will lose will not have a position in government, their position will be in the opposition. (Yule ambaye atatawala hii nchi ni yule atashinda, yule ambaye atashindwa hana nafasi kwa serikali, nafasi yake no upinzani)," Moses Kuria said.
Proponents of the BBI say that it will do away with tensions that have characterised past elections by ensuring that those who lose elections are given a role to play in government.
The initiative envisages the end of the winner-takes-it-all system that has been the recipe for electoral chaos.
Both President Uhuru Kenyatta and his long-time political adversary Raila Odinga have pitched the BBI as an antidote to the current dispensation that consolidates power and makes others feel left out.