The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party wants National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula to stop getting involved in its party politics.

In a statement on Wednesday, September 13, the Party Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna criticised the Wetangula for commenting on the decision to expel some of its members over gross misconduct allegations.

Sifuna claimed that the Speaker has clung to the Kenya Kwanza side while holding office, in which he should be non-partisan. 

“We draw a line on the involvement of the Speaker of the National Assembly, who, while holding an office that makes him both the head of the crucial third arm of government and therefore a supposed neutral arbiter in legislative and political party issues, cannot take sides in partisan matters,” Sifuna stated.

The party was responding to Wetangula’s remarks on Sunday, September 10 where he told off the ODM Party leader for expelling some of its members, instead of allowing them to serve the public. 

“We want to tell all elected leaders that the door to work with government is open as long as it is done in a Constitutional manner. The same frustrations mated to those leaders also happened to us,” Wetangula said while in Uriri. By Sharon Wanga, The Standard