Political analyst Prof Edward Kisang'ani has castigated a section of Jubilee MPs for calling on the party to discipline Kandara's Alice Wahome yet the party lacked elected officials.
In a tweet on Saturday, Kisang'ani cautioned that Kenya would lose the democratic gains it had worked so hard to achieve and return to the era of absolutism if individual's freedom of speech within a party is curtailed.
The Kenyatta University lecturer wondered why some Jubilee legislators had to call on the party which had no officeholders to crack the whip on their fellow errant counterpart.
"If we don't watch out we shall completely reverse our democratic gains n start cultivating dictatorship. How can some MPs call on the Jubilee party to discipline Alice Wahome for speaking her mind when the party does not have elected officials to undertake such a task?" wondered Kisang'ani in the tweet.
On Saturday, leaders from Murang'a county lambasted Kandara MP Alice Wahome for criticising President Uhuru Kenyatta.
They argued that the legislator had erred by blasting the head of state because there is a number of development projects worth billions being implemented in the county.
According to them, Wahome should apologize to Uhuru and the ruling party should penalize her over the disparaging remarks.
Alice Wahome had accused president Uhuru Kenyatta of sabotaging democracy and the economy of Kenya.