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Duale’s call for parliamentary system kicks off a storm in Central Kenya

Majority Leader Aden Duale (right) with President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto. /CFM-FILE.

NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 27 – National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale is on the receiving end for favouring a parliamentary system of governance in proposed changes.

Hours after tweeting that he desires to see the country transition from the current Presidential system of government to a Parliamentary one, Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria fired back and accused him of undermining Central Kenya voters.

“Aden Duale’s tirade against Mt Kenya is a facade. Don’t be fooled that Duale supports a parliamentary system. He knows that by purporting to support a parliamentary system he infuriates Mt Kenya to the core,” Kuria wrote on Facebook, “And that is how Duale and his master will defeat any change by deploying scarecrows.”

Kuria believes Duale is positioning himself for a post in 2022, hence, “there is no way he wants any change in the architecture of Presidency as it is. So my friend we know your handwriting”

He was responding to Duale who suggested that the shift of governance will go a long way in solving the country’s perennial problems that are often caused by tensions emanating from each electioneering period in the country.

The Garissa Township lawmaker tweeted that issues like “tribalism, ethnic violence and inclusivity” would be a thing of the past ostensibly if a recommendation from the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) team rooting for a change of governance would be fully implemented.

“BBI should recommend a constitutional change from a pure presidential system to a pure parliamentary system so that Kenyans can share the economic resources equally and end to political and economic dominance,” he tweeted.

Duale, a perceived close ally to Deputy President William Ruto, has on numerous occasions softened his stand on the country’s preferred system of governance, insisting that the current one was a recipe for chaos where a winner on a presidential election takes it all.

Ruto has, however, been critical of the mandate of the BBI particularly on the need for the team to recommend an expanded executive, a position he has always dismissed arguing it is meant to enrich a ‘few selfish individuals’.

Duale’s latest remarks come hot on the heels of fierce disapproval by a section of Jubilee leaders drawn from Mount Kenya region who vowed to shoot down the BBI report if it advocates for a Parliamentary system of governance.

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The more 30 legislators, who spoke at Parliament buildings last week, threatened to oppose the report if it will favour the creation of the Prime Minister’s position.

The MPs, mostly allies of Ruto, led by Ndaragwa MP Jeremiah Kioni vowed to reject any proposal to elect either a prime minister or president in Parliament.

“We are giving our irreducible minimums which must be addressed, failure to which we will reconsider our support for the report,” he said on behalf of the MPs.

In the meantime, ODM party leader Raila Odinga who spoke in Malindi on Saturday dismissed the opposition talks and conditions by the leaders as premature and careless and called for patience ahead of its submission.

The BBI team is set to present the report to both President Uhuru Kenyatta and Odinga this week.

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