By Agwanda Jowi
ODM chairman Henry Kosgey has exonerated the party from blame that it had a role in the post election violence that rocked the country during the last general elections.
Kosgey who is the Minister for Industrial said the party did not hold meetings at all where mass killings and destruction of property was discussed.
The Minister said that the Pentagon members within the party rank and file had even not time to discuss such issues since they were chased away by anti riot police during the turbulent times.
Kosgey said those who organized the post poll chaos should carry their own crosses at the end of the day.
He was speaking at Sega Girsl High School in Ugenya during funds drive that netted over 2 million shillings.
Kosgey said that ODM was intact adding that party differences were sign of democracy within the party.
He said leaders in the rift valley have resolved to bring leaders in the party together.
Also present was Ugenya Mp James Orengo who is the lands minister and assistant minister for education professor Ayiecho Olweny and Magerer Langat together with Fred Outa.
Kosgey defended the appointment of the new managing director of the Kenya Bureau of standards saying he was qualified.
He said the issue had taken a tribal dimension for no apparent reason.
Kosgey said 15 candidates were applied for the job with 11 being short listed.
He said the chairman of the board later came up with a list of three.
Kosgey said the final list had 8 qualifiers which ended up with five where the final man was picked.
Meanwhile Kisumu Town West Member of Parliament John Olago Aluoch has called on the ODM top command to crack the whip and discipline its members who have openly rebelled against the party.
Aluoch said remarks made by some Mps in the recent past tended to show that they are no longer ODM members.
The Mp said time has now come for ODM to put into motion its disciplinary machinery under its constitutional interpretation that the speaker may declare vacant seat of any Mp who by conduct demonstrates that he or she by intent and purposes has left the party that sponsored the said Mp to parliament.
He said drastic and decisive action must be taken now against such errant Mps.
The Mp said the rebel Mps have now made their intentions known are keen on wrecking the party from within.
He told The People Daily on phone that the speaker of the National Assembly to
Aluoch said the latest episode is the current allegations the Mps are making to the International Criminal Court over the post election violence.
He said the remarks will not tilt the operations of the ICC in the country.
Aluoch said remarks by some Mps were a clear sign that they are panicky over activities of the ICC in the country.
“It should be clearly understood that mass action was not a rallying call to kill or main or destroy property for that matter” he said.
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