Nick Salat on Gideon Moi’s neck as he pushes for his resignation
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Nick Salat on Gideon Moi's neck as he pushes for his resignation after he was suspended from the independence party, KANU
Nick Salat on Gideon Moi’s neck as he pushes for his resignation after he was suspended from the independence party, KANU.
Embattled Kenya African National Union (KANU) secretary general, Nick Salat, clapped back at his boss Gideon Moi demanding his resignation as chairman of the independence party.
Salat, who was placed on administrative leave on December 15, suggested that just a small portion of the party was pushing for his dismissal.
He promised to confront Gideon Moi, whom he alleges is simply acting as interim chairman, in what might develop into a nasty conflict between once-allies turned adversaries.
“Gideon Moi needs to step aside and allow for party elections. We have all been interim since 2012, so where does the chair get the power to suspend me?
“The current composition of the National Executive Committee (NEC) is also illegitimate and cannot purport to suspend me,” the KANU stalwart argued.
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Salat further accused the party chairman of mismanaging the party, arguing that the party was run as a one-man show.
“Look at the number of elected members we have after the August polls, KANU is no longer a progressive party, and the chair has to resign,” Salat declared.
He cautioned that he would contest his suspension in court, arguing that he loyally served KANU throughout his political life.
“We have to go for party elections to have new leadership. It is only a small clique of ‘yes people’ who are still with him (Moi). A majority of us want him to leave the party,” he remarked.
Gideon and Salat have been friends for a long having both been elected to Parliament for the first time in 2002 and became budding ambassadors of the Independence party Kanu, which had just been kicked out of power after a four-decade stranglehold on Kenya’s politics.
But the bitter falling-out between long-serving Kanu secretary general Nick Salat and party chairman Gideon Moi has broken all these bonds and is threatening to tear apart the last of what is left of the party that bestrode Kenya’s political scenes like a colossus from 1963 to 2002.
Nick Salat, the secretary general of KANU, was put on leave after the party claimed he had broken party rules.
In a letter dated December 15th, the party chairman disclosed that Salat had been suspended as a result of a decision made by the National Executive Council (NEC), which had received numerous complaints about Salat.
“You (Salat) are hereby suspended forthwith from carrying out and/or performing your duties as the Party’s Secretary-General pending the determination of the disciplinary proceedings,” read the statement.
His fate now lies with the party’s disciplinary committee, which was ordered to summon him to defend himself and finally submit a report to KANU within 30 days.
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