Azimio snubs bipartisan talks invite
Azimio fails to show up after Kenya Kwanza team resumes bipartisan talks on Tuesday to focus on the recruitment of IEBC commissioners
Azimio fails to show up after Kenya Kwanza team resumes bipartisan talks on Tuesday to focus on the recruitment of IEBC commissioners.
The bipartisan talks have once again hit a snag after the Azimio team failed to show up.
The talks were due to continue on Tuesday to concentrate on the hiring of IEBC commissioners but were postponed a month ago when the Azimio team provided a list of fresh demands.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday, the co-chairman of the Kenya Kwanza team, George Muragara, said they were still willing to hold discussions should the Azimio faction decide to return to the table.
“We just retain the status quo. For Azimio they suspended the talks, they have not called them off. We have to accept the suspension but we say we are ready to resume when Azimio confirms they want to come back to the table,” he said.
He claimed that although the causes of the no-show are still unknown, it might be because of what he called the Azimio team’s outrageous demands made prior to the talks’ collapse.
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“We do not know why they are not coming back to the table because they had made several demands which were possibly not met according to them. But we had also told them the demands were unreasonable, they were unattainable,” he said.
Muragara said a majority of the demands were anchored on illegalities.
The Azimio committee co-chair Otiende Amollo announced they had pulled out of the talks sine die (indefinitely, with no set date of resumption).
Otiende argued that there was inaction to their demands by the President William Ruto team, saying the back-and-forth and hardening of positions informed their decision to invoke Clause 36 of the framework agreement.
The clause allows the joint team to adjourn the talks to build consensus on any issue.
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