‘Resign as a senator’ – Shollei tells Maanzo citing negativity – Folks Every day
National Assembly Deputy Speaker Gladys Shollei has challenged Makueni Senator Dan Maanzo to resign, noting that the Wiper Democratic Movement senator was detrimental and providing no options to the errors he factors out within the authorities.
In a charged interview on an area TV station on Monday, November 4, 2024, Shollei questioned why Maanzo continued accumulating his wage within the senate if he believed that the legislature was underneath state seize.
“I am challenging you, please resign as a senator. If you are an honourable man, please resign because you don’t believe in the institution,” Shollei stated.
Adding: “Senator, I’m getting worried sitting next to you because you are very toxic and very negative. Everything is bad but you are not giving any solutions.”
The remarks got here after Maanzo acknowledged that the 2 arms of government- the Judiciary and the legislature had been underneath the management of the chief.
Maanzo decried that the impeached former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua was condemned unheard because of the machinations of the Executive.
“There is no legislature in the country anymore, the legislature is under capture, the Judiciary is under intimidation,” Maanzo stated.
Adding: “Rigathi Gachagua was never given the opportunity to be heard. The constitution was not broken but bent and every loophole within the law was utilised to kick out Gachagua.”
Won’t resign
In his defence, Maanzo retorted that he wouldn’t resign from his place and would proceed talking in opposition to the federal government, noting that main tasks within the Kenya Kwanza manifesto just like the housing programme, medical health insurance and the college funding mannequin had been wrongly carried out.
“I have a reason why I cannot resign. There is no opposition in the country. If everybody who is dissatisfied with the government resigns, cowers and goes away and does not speak against it, then the nation is finished,” Maanzo stated.
“The biggest problem in Kenya is promises that are never honoured by the presidency,” he added.
Maanzo noticed that members of parliament had initiated an onslaught in opposition to Gachagua proper from the very onslaught in 2022 and that he remained a marked man till his ouster by the Senate on October 17, 2024.
During the swearing-in of Deputy President Kithure Kindiki on November 1, 2024, President William Ruto revealed that he had been a lonely man single-handedly popularising authorities insurance policies and tasks.
He urged Kindiki to make use of his fluency and public service expertise to assist him obtain his guarantees within the subsequent three years.
