Kenya Kwanza Power Structure Revealed
Written by RadioVuna on May 12, 2022
The Kenya Kwanza coalition pact reads like a return on investment, reap-what-you-sow power sharing plan.
Tharaka Nithi Senator Kithure Kindiki drafted the detailed primary document, which was submitted to the Registrar of Political Parties on Sunday night, just in time for coalitions to lay out their plans for how they will relate to one another in the run-up to, during and after the general election, as well as their plans for power sharing and government structures if they win the presidency.
United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party leader and Deputy President William Ruto is in charge of Kenya Kwanza coalition’s presidential flag-bearer role.
UDA, and in especially the Mt. Kenya area, has been given the honor of being the running-mate position. For the most part, curiosity over Ruto’s running-mate is likely to be put to rest with this geo-location clue.
If Deputy President William Ruto wins the August State House vote, the Kenya Kwanza power pact gives Amani National Congress (ANC) leader Musalia Mudavadi the Prime Cabinet Secretary position.
According to the Kenya Kwanza coalition agreement, the position of Speaker of the National Assembly is reserved for Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula and his Ford Kenya party.
On Sunday, Amason Kingi, the former governor of Kilifi, switched to Kenya’s Kwanza Party and became the new Senate speaker for the Pamoja African Alliance (PAA).
The deal calls for a cabinet of 21 ministries, which will be distributed according to the arrangement.
Kenya Kwanza’s victory in the August elections will give Mudavadi and Wetangula a 30% share of the appointive cabinet seats in the Ruto power structure.
Prime Cabinet Secretary and six Cabinet Secretary positions, the Speaker of Kenya’s National Assembly, and Western Kenya’s top development initiatives are all included.
Mudavadi and Wetangula must provide at least 70% of the Western Kenyan votes that will be polled in the August presidential contest to earn these coveted positions.
Kenya’s five counties of Kakamega, Bungoma and Vihiga have a total of 2,592,437 registered voters, which is officially part of Rift Valley Region but politically part of the Western Region.
All remaining unfinished or delayed bitumen highways, 1,000 kilometers of new bitumen roads, and funds to restore and modernize sugar facilities such as Mumias and Nzoia are part of the development projects agreed by Mudavadi and Wetangula in the coalition agreement.
Such initiatives, however, may have to be reworked to fit the needs of various regions of the nation.
On a pro-rata basis, the Kenya Kwanza coalition agreement contains three founding parties: the UDA, the ANC (African National Congress), and Ford Kenya.
In the coalition agreement reached on Sunday night, Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi, who switched from Raila’s Azimio la Umoja; One Kenya, to Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza has bargained for the Senate Speaker post.
To ensure his loyalists’ assignment to high-ranking jobs in Kenya’s port authority, he obtained a political promissory note (KPA).
However, per the terms of the deal, Kingi and his Pamoja African Alliance (PAA) party must ensure that Ruto receives at least 50% of the presidential votes cast in Kilifi County during the August State House poll; Kilifi County has 582,631 voters registered.
The alliance has agreed to support Kingi’s PAA party in the parliamentary races in Malindi, Magarini, Ganze, Rabai, and Kaloleni.
If Ruto is elected president in August, Maendeleo Chap Chap of Mutua has bargained for a position as Cabinet Secretary in a ministry dealing with infrastructure or public utilities like electricity or water.
The ministerial flag is the ultimate goal, and if Mutua fails to win it, he will accept nomination in either the National Assembly or Senate and be endorsed to become the majority or minority leader in one of the two houses.
Machakos, Kitui, and Makueni, three counties in Ukambani, have a total population of 1.7 million individuals who are eligible to vote in the presidential election. For Kalonzo Musyoka, the Wiper Party’s leader, it’s seen as a safe haven in the race to be the party’s running mate.
The Kenya Kwanza coalition agreement establishes and distinguishes between the DP and the Prime Cabinet Secretary in order to avoid the enmity between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto. It was agreed that he would chair all cabinet committees, oversee implementation of cabinet decisions, coordinate relations between the national and county governments, coordinate planning and supervision of projects funded by development partners, and coordinate constitutional commissions in matters that require national government intervention.
As part of the coalition agreement, if Ruto wins, he would have to protect, defend, guarantee the stature, dignity, financial and operational autonomy of the Deputy President’s office. Ruto has previously moaned about what he deemed abuse by President Kenyatta.
If Kenya Kwanza is elected president, however, an executive order would name a new Prime Cabinet Secretary, who will have five additional responsibilities. Coordinating and supervising the technical monitoring and evaluation of government policies and pro-government programs are among them.
With the exception of the three core members, Kenya Kwanza has 11 other associate parties, and is looking for more to join through the provision of post-election coalitions.
DP, Tujibebe, TSP, and Chama Cha Kazi are among the 11 groups in Kenya Kwanza who will receive a share of the government based on their contributions, which include the number of parliamentary and county seats they garnered in the recent elections.
Ruto, Mudavadi, and Wetangula will serve as members of the party leaders forum, which is the coalition’s top decision-making body.
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