Drama unfolded on Monday morning during a live broadcast of Citizen TV's Daybreak show when two Members of Parliament from the ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) engaged in a heated debate over ideological differences.
The debate, which had been progressing smoothly with political panelists from both the ruling party and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), took a turn when Kiambu Women Representative Gathoni Wamuchomba, allied to UDA, alleged that members of the UDA party often received phone calls from an unnamed senior figure providing instructions on how they should vote in Parliament. Wamuchomba was referring to what she termed as 'a political cage' in which former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua found himself while serving the government. ''He was in that cage.
It is a political cage and every other politician, including the ones seated here, will face this camera and say they are not in that cage,'' Wamuchomba stated. Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba during a Women's Power and Change Conference in Nairobi on September 6,2024.
Gathoni Wamuchomba ''But I can confess to you that no single vote happens in Parliament without them receiving a call.
