NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 11 — Lamu Woman Representative Muthoni Marubu has ditched President William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA), accusing Lamu Governor Issa Timamy of political sabotage and ethnic exclusion.

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Marubu, who was elected as an independent candidate in 2022 but had increasingly aligned herself with UDA, said Tuesday that she and her political team would no longer participate in the party’s activities.

She said her decision followed a dispute over UDA’s grassroots elections in Lamu, which she accused Timamy of seeking to repeat after the outcome did not favour his political interests.

“I went ahead and did the work—three months of mobilisation and 42 grassroots meetings across the county, registering members and building support for a party that had won no elective seat in Lamu County in 2022,” she said.

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Marubu accused Timamy of deliberately targeting Lamu West, her political stronghold, while leaving the rest of the county untouched.

“If this were genuinely about electoral integrity, the entire county would concern you. It does not. This is deliberate political sabotage,” she said.

She also rejected an alleged claim that the people mobilised by her team were predominantly Kikuyu and therefore unlikely to support UDA.

“That allegation is false,” Marubu said, insisting that her team had mobilised across communities and traversed the county from Hindi to Witu, Kiunga and the Boni Forest.

“To dismiss an entire community as politically unreachable defeats the very purpose of political mobilisation,” she said.

Marubu, who said she was born and raised in Lamu despite having ancestry in Murang’a, accused Timamy of allowing ethnicity to influence political participation.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya