Three Koinange Family Members Fight for Jubilee Party Ticket in Kiambaa By-Election
Three members of the Koinange family are set to battle it out for the Jubilee Party ticket for the upcoming Kiambaa parliamentary by-election.
The seat fell vacant following the death of MP Paul Koinange, who died of COVID-19 related complications while receiving treatment at the Nairobi Hospital on March 31st.
Five aspirants have submitted applications seeking to vie for the seat on a Jubilee Party ticket, according to the ruling outfit’s secretary-general Raphael Tuju.
Among the five aspirants are three members of the Koinange family, including late MP’s widow June Koinange, former Cabinet Minister Mbiyu Koinange’s daughter Lenah Koinange, and her niece Damaris Wambui.
The governing party will hold a nomination exercise to pick its candidate for the by-election on May 15th.
Tuju says only the most popular candidate will be chosen to fly the party’s flag in the Kiambaa by-election slated for July 15th.
“I don’t think we will have any problem because what we will do is a credible nomination process. We want to assure all the aspirants that we will do a credible process in identifying the right candidate,” said Tuju.
The President Kenyatta-led party is keen on recapturing the seat since the departed MP was elected under the party.
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Greed. Greed. Their father and grandfather stole and owns more than 30 percent of Kiambu county, not to mention thousand of hectares of land in all Kenya. Now, abnormal Kenyan culture and trend whereby, if a governor, Mpigs, Mcas, dies either their wives, sisters, brothers, uncles, concubines, they clave to replace them. It started with Moi, Kitony, Ngeny, Labosos, Kones, Boy Juma Boy, Nassir, Mutavati, Odinga, Kenyatta, all the way now to the Koinanges. Kenya is the only country in the world where relatives of thieves are rewarded and celebrated. Over fifty years since independence, we continue to recycle the same thieves, as if they own our country. Whom to claim? Foolish Kenya who still vote and worship them, while they continue to wallow in abject poverty year in year out.
MjuAji seems to have forgotten that 6.5m.hungry billionaires voted YES to the 2010 expensive/poop katiba which is financed through loans.Recently another 3m.signed for BBI but none of them can tell you why they want to expand the idle govt.How will these NGOMONGOS finance the shs 10b.per month additional buggage?