Kioni: Ruto suffering from multi-personality disorder
Kioni:
Ruto suffering from multi-personality disorder
By Jeremiah Kioni (pictured)
The Holy Bible teaches us that
there is a time and place for everything.
There is a time to speak, and a
time to be silent.
A time to embrace, and a time to pull away.
A time to exercise restraint, and a time to
act.
And today the times compel us
to speak and draw the line.
In recent times, the Deputy
President of the Republic of Kenya, Dr William Ruto has attacked the Jubilee
Government and its performance with vice and relish.
In fact, he has been holding
anti-government meetings in a government facility in Karen.
Similarly, he used Ksh107
million from the government to travel to Europe and America.
In these trips he told the foreigners that the
Jubilee Government is a Mongrel or a dog of no defined type.
Yet this so called ‘dog’ paid
for his extravagant trip and other rendezvous.
As members of the Jubilee Party,
we want to tell the Deputy President that he is out of order.
We want to tell him that this
is where we draw the line. Enough is enough.
And we say so because the
Deputy President is an active member of what he called a ‘mongrel
government’.
Our records indicate that,
since the Handshake, he has attended all
Full Cabinet Meetings and has from time to time chaired full cabinet meetings,
in the absence of His Excellency the President.
In fact, he is the chairman of the
all-important Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC) made up of
cabinet ministers and Governors. This is the council that allocates funds to
counties.
If our records are accurate,
every government decision he is criticising has been made in his presence.
He has either participated in
making it, or chaired a cabinet meeting that made it.
He cannot, therefore, make
decisions in government and then migrate to a government facility, at his
official residence, to criticise the same decisions. This, in our view is not
hypocrisy; it is a clear manifestation of a pathological liar.
The world over, governments are
guided by a Constitutional Convention known as the Doctrine of Collective
Responsibility.
In this Constitutional
Convention, the cabinet is expected to disagree privately; but to support its
collective position publicly.
When a cabinet member disagrees
with the government publicly, the Constitutional Convention requires him to
resign and advocate his contrarian position from outside of government.
The Deputy President cannot
serve two masters. And we say so because a man who serves two masters is
naturally bound to lie to one.
Since he has breached the
constitutional doctrine of collective responsibility, we demand two things:
ONE: That Dr William Ruto
RESIGNS from his position as Deputy President with INSTANTENEOUS
IMMEDIACY.
This is the honourable thing to
do if he is to avoid pathological lies.
TWO: Article 150(1)a of our
constitution gives grounds on which the Deputy President can be removed.
If he is mentally incapacitated or suffers
from ill health, these are sufficient grounds to remove him. In the case of
William Ruto, we suspect that he has become schizophrenic.
He has began to exhibit
symptoms of a man suffering from multi-personality disorder.
And the early symptoms of this
disorder are manifested in repeated acts of lying.
To dispel our fears, we demand that the Deputy
President subjects himself to a psychiatric evaluation in order to comply with
Article 150(1)a of the constitution.
We will now turn to the Jubilee
Members of Parliament who have left for UDA.
Section 14(4) of the Political
Parties Act states that “…a person shall not be a member of more than one
political party at the same time”.
Section 14(5) of the same Act
further states that an MP shall be “…deemed to have resigned from their party
if they… (inter alia)…Publicly advocate the formation of another political
party…(or)…Promote the ideology, interests or policies of another political
party”.
Based on these provisions, the
actions of the Jubilee rebellion makers are equal to resignation from the
Party.
And this applies to members of
the National Assembly, Senate and the County Assemblies who have associated
themselves with other parties.
Resignation from the Jubilee
Party also means that the rebellion makers automatically lose their
parliamentary seats.
According to Article 103(1)e of the
constitution, the office of a Member of Parliament shall become vacant if “…as
a member of a political party, the member resigns from that political party, or
is deemed to have resigned as determined…” by the Political Parties Act.
Further, these provisions were
subjected to a judicial interpretation in a constitutional court in June
2017. The ruling of the court was that,
if a person holding an executive position switches parties, the constitution
does not require them to vacate their positions.
However, the reverse is true
for MPs, Senators and MCAs. Should they be deemed to have resigned by
supporting another party as per Section 14(4)(5) of the Political Parties Act
and Article 103 (1) of the constitution, “…the consequences are the declaration
of a vacancy in the said positions”. And that was the ruling of the
constitutional court.
On account of these provisions
of the constitution, the Political Parties Act, and the judicial interpretation
of these pieces of law, we intend to do the following;
Issue a Notice of Resignation
to the Clerks of the relevant Houses of Parliament for the Jubilee MPs and
Senators “…publicly promoting the ideologies, interests and policies” of other
parties. And by this, cause them to vacate their positions in the two houses of
Parliament.
Issue a Notice of Resignation
to the Clerks of all County Assemblies for the Jubilee MCAs “…publicly
promoting the ideologies, interests and policies” of other parties. And by
this, cause them to vacate their positions in the County Assemblies.
Initiate the process of
revoking the appointment of all nominated Jubilee MPs and Senators “…publicly
promoting the ideologies, interests and policies” of other parties. And by
this, cause them to vacate their positions in the two houses of Parliament.
God Bless you all. And God
Bless Kenya.
Jeremiah
Kioni is Jubilee Party Secretary General
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