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Azimio split over House teams slots

Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi, flanked by some MPs allied to Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party.

National Assembly Minority Leader Opiyo Wandayi addresses journalists in Nairobi on September 21, 2022. A falling out is looming in the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition over who should occupy its three slots in the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC).

Photo credit: Jeff Angote | Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • The coalition also faces a test over the sharing of eight parliamentary committee leadership slots.
  • Leader of Minority Opiyo Wandayi (Ugunja) wrote to the Speaker, who chairs the PSC, notifying him of the coalition’s nominees to the commission, Mishi Mboko (ODM) and Patrick Makau (Wiper).
  • But within hours of Mr Wandayi’s letter, Jubilee Secretary-General Jeremiah Kioni wrote another letter to the Speaker, indicating Sirisia MP John Waluke as Jubilee’s nominee to the PSC.


A falling out is looming in the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition over who should occupy its three slots in the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC).

The coalition also faces a test over the sharing of eight parliamentary committee leadership slots.