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ODM NEC removes Edwin Sifuna as party Secretary General

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The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) National Executive Committee (NEC) has removed Senator Edwin Sifuna as the party’s Secretary General.

In a statement issued after a NEC meeting held on, ODM Acting Secretary General Catherine Omanyo said the committee adopted recommendations by the party’s Internal Disputes Resolution Committee (IDRC) and unanimously endorsed his removal from office.

“After going through the report and the findings of the IDRC under Article 74(2) of the Party constitution, the NEC unanimously resolved to adopt the Committee’s recommendations and endorsed the removal from office of Senator Edwin Watenya Sifuna. Effectively, Sen. Sifuna ceases to be the Secretary General of the ODM Party,” Omanyo said.

The party said the decision followed an internal disciplinary process after Sifuna challenged ODM’s actions at the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal (PPDT).

ODM maintained that its process was conducted within the party constitution, citing the Tribunal’s position that political party officials are not above internal disciplinary mechanisms.
“The day any official of a Party becomes above the law, so to speak, will be the day of the funeral of political Party democracy in Kenya,” ODM stated quoting the PPDT.

The removal comes days after the PPDT found that Sifuna had been denied a fair hearing during an earlier attempt by ODM to remove him from office.
In a ruling delivered on June 18, the Tribunal said there was no evidence that Sifuna had been notified that his conduct would be discussed during the NEC meeting that led to his ouster.

The Tribunal, chaired by Gad Gathu, found that ODM had breached the principles of natural justice by removing Sifuna from the party’s third-highest office without giving him an opportunity to respond to the allegations against him-KBC.

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