On Friday, March 13, Kenyan newspapers reported that Kalonzo Musyoka’s Wiper Patriotic Front (WPF) and other parties are facing possible de-registration for lack of broad national support.
Local publications also emphasized that the Nairobi senator Edwin Sifuna he is fighting for his removal as secretary general of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).
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1. The Star
The opposition leader’s party Wiper Patriotic Front (Wiper Patriotic Front) of Kalonzo Musyoka and the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC) Charitable Association of Ngilu (Rainbow News) (NARC) are among the parties that may face cancellation of registration for failing to meet the constitutional requirements of national presence.
A new report by Auditor General Nancy Gathungu found that Wiper and NARC do not have enough offices in 47 counties in Kenya.
Party of United Democratic Party and the Change Party were also highlighted for violating constitutional requirements.
The report found gaps in several areas where the parties lacked real offices or could not demonstrate sustained political activity.
Under Kenyan law, a registered political party must maintain offices and active operations in more than half of the country’s 47 counties to qualify as a national party.
In his audit report for 2024/25, Gathungu shows that the parties have not maintained executive offices in at least 24 counties as required by law, thus putting them at risk of being deleted from the register of political parties.
According to the report, Wiper has not met that requirement since 2022.
2. The Standard
On Thursday, March 12, the ODM Party and Nairobi senator Edwin Sifuna clashed before the Political Parties Conflict Council.
Sifuna said that the February 11 resolution that sought to remove him from office as the secretary general of the party was wrong, unconstitutional and procedural, and he asked the council to cancel it.
However, ODM insisted that the process was legal and said Sifuna acted prematurely by filing the case before using the party’s internal dispute resolution mechanisms.
At the center of the dispute is Article 74 of the ODM constitution, which requires the party’s National Central Committee (NEC) to give the office holder sufficient information and an opportunity to respond to allegations before being removed from office.
Isaac Okero, Sifuna’s lawyer, said the attempt to remove him from office violated these requirements.
3. People Daily
The late Member of Parliament for Emurua Dikirr, Johana Ng’eno, was seen as one of the politicians who could eventually succeed President William Ruto, but his death has created a big gap in the politics of succession in the Rift Valley.
The speaker MP was mentioned along with other politicians such as Aaron Cheruiyot, Jackson Mandago, Dating Murkomen and Oscar Sudi as Ruto’s successors when he retires from active politics.
With the death of Ngeno, other leaders from the Rift Valley now have the opportunity to compete for the highly influential position in the region.
Ng’eno died in a plane crash in Mosop, Nandi county.
4. Daily Nation
The publication reported that three High Court vacancies are approaching the 2027 General Election.
Kenya’s nomination of Supreme Court Justice Njoki Ndung’u to the International Criminal Court (ICC) election has opened the door to the possibility of a third succession at the high court before the next election.
His departure from the High Court would follow the vacancy created by the death of Justice Mohamed Ibrahim, one of the original five judges of the court appointed in 2012, who died on December 17, 2025, just 14 days before reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 years.
It would also precede the retirement of Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu, who turns 70 on April 15, 2027, just three months before the election.
5. Nation Today
Five months after the death of late ODM leader Raila Odinga, a major reshuffle of his staff took place privately at his Capitol Hill headquarters in Nairobi on Wednesday, March 11, causing tears to flow and anger to erupt.
Through the many election cycles, political conflicts, and alliances that shaped Kenya’s political history, many had supported the experienced opposition leader.
However, when some employees were told their services were no longer needed, what started as a routine staff meeting soon turned into a bitter liability.
Philip Juma, Raila’s longtime driver who took him through some of Kenya’s toughest political seasons, was one of those fired.
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