Starehe Member of Parliament Amos Mwango on Monday wrote to Parliament demanding National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula to resign.
According to the legislator, Wetangula must resign for gross violation of the Constitution by appearing to side with the executive.
“In coming out to publicly endorse the misguided, nonsensical and misinformed purported motion against Deputy President by the marionette deluded Members of National Assembly, Speaker Wetangula has shown his last straw of partisan and small-minded moderation,” the MP noted.
According to the legislator, speaker Wetangula has routinely allowed passage of legislation that flouts the Constitution, all with a view of blindly praising the President. The MP claimed inside the National Assembly, he allows a few friendly pre-selected and pre-screened MPs on the Kenya Kwanza side to contribute to debates.
Parliament orderlies chasing Kisumu East MP Shakeel Shabbir on June 25, 2024.
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The MP further added that Wetangula has a penchant for breaching the Constitution noting that the National Assembly has passed countless statutes and amendments that are blatantly unconstitutional and declared so by the courts with abundance.
The legislator claimed Wetangula is a hired gun in the hands of those who seek to undermine the sovereignty of the people and the constitutional authority of the National Assembly.
In his letter, MP Mwango argues that the government is not in Parliament and therefore the two arms should exist autonomously.
“The two political branches namely the executive and legislature are directly elected. Each has an independent and distinct electoral mandate. This is unlike the Parliamentary system which has only a single mandate system,” read the letter in part.
In his submissions, the legislator noted that the 2010 Constitution fundamentally altered and changed our system of governance allowing for independence of arms of the government.
He argued the new Constitution moved us from the mongrel mixed system of presidential and parliamentary to a pure presidential system with a separation of powers and functions.
Ideally, in a constitutional presidential system, the Government is not in Parliament. The Party that sponsored the President is in Parliament but only as a party not as the government.
In such a system the presidential system, Senators and Members of National Assembly (MNAs) are not bound to vote for the President’s policies and laws maintaining a free direct electoral mandate from voters.
Deputy President William Ruto (in yellow), lawyer turned politician, Cliff Ombeta, and party leaders Moses Wetangula (Ford-Kenya) and Musalia Mudavadi (ANC) at a campaign rally in Nyamira County on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
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