This archive report was first published on 14 June 2020.
June 14, 2020
A section of Ford-Kenya professionals have welcomed the recent changes in the party, urging the new leadership to start recruiting members and organize free and fair party elections.
Describing themselves as founding professionals of the party, the group challenged Kanduyi MP Wafula Wamunyinyi, who was elected the new party leader, to ensure the elections are devoid of intimidation and extortion.
“This change will bring about the democratic tenets that our founding members subscribed to and bring back the Party to a “Democratic Forum” and not a vehicle for extortion and achievement of personal agenda,” the group said in a statement signed on their behalf by former Webuye MP Saulo Busolo.
The group, which includes several founding members, has requested the new party leadership to steer the party towards a direction fitting current national conversations around the Building Bridges Initiative, war on corruption, political inclusiveness, and national development agenda.
“Our people wish to rejoin a sanitised, fumigated and keeping-distance-from-corruption Ford Kenya Party. The plain truth is that public trust in the former leadership has been eroded and no theatrics will change this situation,” Mr Busolo said.
