The rant and rave by former UDA Party’s Secretary General Cleophas Malala over his ouster from office is not worth of a response from the Party, and is indeed undeserving of much attention, except that we find it appropriate to correct some misconceptions contained in his statement.
For the avoidance of doubt, Malala was legally and procedurally removed from office as the Secretary General of UDA, and the same acknowledged and ratified by the Registrar of Political Parties. The office subsequently effected the changes as required of it by law.
Malala’s ouster was a collective decision by the Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), the same organ that had appointed him to hold the position in an “acting” capacity. Suffice it to say, the organ that appointed him is the very one that unanimously decided to replace him.
Malala’s colourless stint as Secretary General was characterized by melodrama, toxicity, missteps, discord, ruin; a failed leadership in all aspects. The Party therefore does not wish to be drawn into endless shenanigans recognizing its status as the Party of the President, the nation’s ruling Party.
In this regard, the Party notes with great concern the frantic efforts by Malala to link his ouster with unfounded, imaginary and purported impeachment of the Deputy President HE Hon Rigathi Gachagua. We find it gross that he is now casting aspersions on the part of the Party’s leadership, regrettably invoking the names of Party Chairperson Governor Cecily Mbarire and National Assembly Majority Leader Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah in the purported impeachment.
We wish to caution Malala against roping the Party and particularly its Chairperson and the Majority Leader in the political shenanigans of an unfounded claim of Deputy President’s impeachment and seek his sympathies through any other means.
Her Excellency Governor Mbarire, the UDA Party Chairperson, is not a Member of Parliament and thus cannot sponsor a motion of impeachment. As a Party, we find his behavior unbecoming and inappropriate for former SG Malala to drag her name and that of the Majority Leader in such an unfounded claim of the impeachment of the country’s Deputy President and must be asked to stop this rave.
Let the authors and sponsors of this script perform their poems and plays in other theatres of political deceit and sympathy seeking. The wild performances of these political novices cannot deter the will of the Party’s rank and file to steer the Party on it’s set course of progress and transformation as custodians of the peoples’ mandate.
