Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja has raised concerns over the current troubles hitting the opposition’s National Super Alliance (NASA), which is seemingly collapsing.
The alliance has been dormant lately as a result of a series of internal fights and disagreements between the member parties, with one of its co-principals and Ford Kenya party leader Moses Wetangula announcing his exit from the coalition on Monday.
This, according to Sakaja, is disadvantageous to the ruling Jubilee Party and the entire nation, with the lawmaker noting that it might render Jubilee unruly.
He maintained that the President Uhuru Kenyatta-led government needs a strong opposition to keep it on track, adding that the worsening situation in the opposing side will lead to irresponsibility on the government side.
‘’Sisi kama Jubilee hatufaidiki NASA ikivunjika kwa sababu lazima tuwajibishwe, hata kama kuna wanaupinzani walioungana na serikali (as Jubilee we will not benefit from NASA’s collapse because we need to be made accountable and corrected),’’ he said.
The alliance's troubles began on January 30, when the remaining 3 co-principals snubbed the coalition chief Raila Odinga’s mock Presidential inauguration in Uhuru Park, Nairobi.
The situation worsened when the former Prime Minister went ahead, apparently without the knowledge of his colleagues, to reach a truce with President Uhuru Kenyatta on March 9.
The 4 party member coalition brings on board Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), Ford-Kenya, Musalia Mudavadi’s Amani National Congress (ANC) and the Kalonzo Musyoka-led Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM).