Trouble is looming in the moribund NASA coalition following the Appeals Court decision to to award Orange Democratic Movement party Sh4 billion.

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Currently, the NASA affiliates Wiper, ANC and Ford Kenya are using different avenues to negotiate for the money, which was awarded in compliance with Political Parties Act.

The three parties are meeting ODM on Monday after futile attempts by Registrar of Political Parties Ann Nderitu to solve the debacles last week.

After several years of waiting, Justices Otieno Odek and Daniel Musinga awarded ODM a whopping Sh4 billion to run the party.

“The appellant is entitled in arrears to all monies due pursuant to Section 25(1)(a) of the Political Parties Act from the financial year subsequent the effective date of the Act i.e. arrears from the 2012/13 financial year,” the judges ruled as quoted by the Standard.

Wiper Secretary General Judith Sijeny said ODM should find it proper to give all affiliate parties in NASA a fair share.

“We should sit and agree on how the money should be divided. We have initiated the talks and are waiting to see if they will comply this time,” she said. 

The money is only applicable to Cord which comprised ODM, Wiper and Ford Kenya.”

“We have engaged ODM and the registrar of parties on this,” said Ford Kenya Secretary General Eseli Simiyu.

ANC spokesman Barack Muluka says that while they do not stake a claim on the Sh4 billion windfall, the Orange party in the spirit of comradeship should be magnanimous enough to share it with them.

“What we can talk about is the disbursements made after Nasa came into being and which ODM has violated the sharing formula in the coalition agreement. We will pursue this at an appropriate time,” he said.

But ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna told the Sunday Nation that they have tried to explain to the parties that the money is given based on seats garnered in elections.

“What we get is as a result of the seats of governors, MPs and MCAs and the registrar too has told them. That the August 8 presidential election was nullified, and we boycotted the repeat poll. As such, we are not eligible for that account,” he said.