Homa Bay Women Representative Gladys Wanga has declared that Cord's parallel Madaraka Day celebration is legitimate and that they will not look back.This is despite earlier threats by Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery to arrest the coalition's co-principals should they go ahead to hold the rally.
However, the outspoken first time legislator says that the current freedom of speech that Kenyans enjoy did not come easy and insisted that they will hold the rally as planned.
'The freedoms we enjoy today of assembly and free speech and free media did not come easy. Gallant Kenyans lost lives and limb, were maimed by a repressive administration', said Mrs. Wanga on her Facebook page.
"We cannot sit back and watch overenthusiastic home-guards like Gen. Nkaissery roll these freedoms with disdain cheered on by the faces of retrogression and impunity like Kamanda, Waweru and others whose names are not worth my keyboard time," she added.
"Let all who cherish the constitution and freedoms meet at Uhuru Park on Wednesday. If not for any other reason to make a clear statement to Jubilee that Kenya is not Uganda."
This statement adds heat to the looming political showdown between Cord and Jubilee. But who will blink first?