Former nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba has revealed that her salary was stopped months before her seat was officially gazetted as vacant on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.
Speaking during a televised interview on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, Orwoba explained that her payments ceased approximately three months prior to that date, aligning with the start of her suspension.
The former senator noted that public perception often ties salary termination to the official vacancy notice, but her experience proved otherwise.
“Something that people don’t know is that my salary did not stop on the day when they gazetted my seat vacant. My salary actually stopped about 3 months before that, when I was suspended,” Orwoba said on K24 TV.
Orwoba has since challenged the move, maintaining that the action was unlawful. She confirmed that the matter is currently under investigation in the labor court, as she seeks to address what she describes as an unauthorized withdrawal of her remuneration during her disciplinary period.
“I have not received a salary from the Parliamentary Service Commission. I can’t even remember the last time I got a salary from them, to be honest,” Orwoba added.
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Orwoba criticized the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) leadership, insisting her political identity remains independent of the seat she once held. She argued that her personal values define her rather than the nomination itself, asserting that losing the position does not change her character.
“It is not the nomination that made me who I am,” she stated.
Despite her removal from the Senate, Orwoba maintained that she remains a member of the UDA. She explained that her decision to stay was not a sudden choice but a deliberate move, as she prefers making sound, calculated decisions rather than acting on impulse.
“I am a member of the UDA party. And by the way, that question I was asked in another forum, like, “Why are you still a member of UDA?” And I explained very well that I don’t wake up one morning and radically change and say I’m going to move to another party. That’s not how I make decisions,” Orwoba said.
She further revealed that she spent three years trying to reform the party from within after concluding that President William Ruto had misled the public. Orwoba noted that she endured various injustices from the start of her term, hoping to fix the system before eventually deciding it was time to move on as the political cycle concludes.
“That’s the same reason I persevered through all the injustices and all the nonsense that was going on from day one when we were sworn in. I started seeing so many things that William Ruto had been lying to a lot of people. But I persevered for three years. Because I was trying to say, okay, I’m going to fight from within. I’m the kind of person who will try to fix it until I can’t fix it anymore, and then I make the sound decision.”
