National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale. politics.co.keNational Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale has told Nandi MP Alfred Keter to tow the Jubilee party line and respect the presidency.
Duale who spoke on Tuesday after Keter and two other MPs from Rift Valley were removed from their respective Parliamentary Committee leadership positions said Jubilee does not wish anything bad about the lawmakers but only wanted to have the "face of Kenya" represented in the House committees.
"This goes to Alfred Keter, if you have any isues with State House please be frank to speak," he told journalists outside Parliament.
"Respect State House. Jubilee is one party that will promote inclusivity."
The Jubilee rebel MPs, who were facing ejection from their committee leadership positions for defying their party bosses, had last week said they will fight to the end to protect the institution of Parliament from Executive onslaught.
They included Keter, James Gakuya (Embakasi North), Kang'ong'o Bowen (Marakwet East) and Silas Tiren (Moiben).
The lawmakers said they did nothing wrong in getting elected to the committee leadership.
In the elections conducted in December last year, Keter defeated Bura MP Ali Wario, who was Jubilee’s man for the Labour and Social Welfare Committee, while Tiren beat Mandera South MP Adan Haji Ali for the leadership of the Agriculture Committee.
Gakuya also went against the wishes of Jubilee to be elected chairman of the Parliamentary Broadcasting and Library Committee while Bowen defeated Ijara MP Sophia Abdi, who was Jubilee’s choice for the vice chairperson of the Environment and Natural Resources Committee.