KANU is waking up – they claim raw deal by PNU heavyweights
Posted by African Press International on March 16, 2008
It is not too late, Kanu Rift Valley leaders seems to say in their imagination to get positions in the new government. They want ministerial positions, they want to revive the party and enable it to fight for the share of the cake now when posts in government will be dished out. Why are leaders only thinking of themselves and how to be positioned even if they lost the elections to represent the people?
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Kanu leaders from Rift call for meeting
Story by NOAH CHEPLOEN
Kanu leaders from Rift Valley have demanded that the party holds a national delegates conference to chart its future.
The group of former MPs and branch officials said time had come for the party to be revamped to reverse its declining fortunes after it teamed up with other parties in PNU in last years elections.
The leaders, who spoke in Nakuru also endorsed former Baringo Central MP Gideon Moi as their spokesman.
They claimed the party had been given a raw deal in PNU and declared they would now negotiate as an independent entity.
This meeting is not targeting any individual but something has to start somewhere. KANU has ignored Rift Valley, said former Bomet MP Nick Salat who together with former Health Minister Paul Sang, spoke on behalf of the group.
The group threatened to pull out of PNU if the party was not handed one of the two deputy prime minister posts.
Mr Salat said Kanu chairman Mr Uhuru Kenyatta should fight it out with other members from the party for the deputy PM position.
The meeting also declared support for the National Peace Accord signed by President Mwai Kibaki and ODM leader Raila Odinga and called for a total overhaul of the Constitution.
Kanu would not support piecemeal changes to the Constitution as this will only suit individual interests, they added. Former Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation (MYWO) chairperson Zipporah Kittony was also in attendance.
Mr Moi said KANU supported PNU in last years elections but added that it was now time for the party to fight for its interests.
He said vacant positions at the branch and district levels occasioned by mass defections will be filled soon.
The leaders said they will promote peace across the province but urged the Government to take immediate action to restore calm in Molo.
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