Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna on Wednesday, August 20 fired back at Professor Makau Mutua after the legal scholar's calls for him to resign from his position as ODM party's Secretary-General. In an exchange which played out on social media, Makau initially claimed Sifuna was in an "untenable position" within the party, suggesting the Senator's best course of action would be to step down. "My good learned friend and Senator Edwin Sifuna appears to be in an UNTENABLE position as SG of ODM Party.
It seems to me that the honorable thing for him to do if he's a man of principle is to resign his post, which rarely happens in Kenya, unless one is sacked," Mutua, a close ally of ODM party leader Raila Odinga, said. But in a scathing response, Sifuna dismissed Makau Mutua's remarks, accusing him of hypocrisy while referencing the professor's recent appointment. A photo of ODM's Party Leader Raila Odinga (right) and Secretary General Edwin Sifuna (left).
Photo ODM "You have the unenviable task of determining the value of the lives of the young people your new friends killed and compensate their families," Sifuna retorted. The Senator added, "One would imagine that crown to be so heavy as not to allow the wearer time for anything else, let alone worrying about the SG of ODM, who isn't even your friend." Sifuna's comments directly referenced Mutua's new appointment to lead the framework for coordinating the compensation of victims of protests and riots.
Besides announcing Mutua's appointment as the principal coordinator of the state intervention and compensation framework, President William Ruto revealed that the framework would last for 120 days from the date of the announcement.
