Elgeyo Marakwet Senator has claimed that the animosity between President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto is not just a turmoil in Jubilee but also a political risk.
Via Twitter on Monday, Murkomen said the animosity will hit Kenyans hard.
"The President fighting his Deputy isn’t merely a Jubilee political joke. In international business terms that’s called political risk," he said.
He added: "It’s terrible. Being a nation that has borrowed heavily, the Shilling will keep falling and we shall pay heavily. Investors are already on wait and see state."
Last week, the Kenyan shilling remained unchanged against the US dollar, to close at Sh108.5 similar to what was recorded the previous week.
President Uhuru Kenyatta appears to have shoved DP William Ruto from the centre of power after stripping him of his allies in Parliament and reducing his functions and funding.
Legal experts say there are no fixed timelines for the start of presidential campaign vote hunt.
The DP's relentless scouring for 2022 support has put him on a collision cause with the President, who says early campaigns disrupt his development agenda.
UhuRuto's relationship is now characterised by hard-hitting remarks targeted at each other. The one-time unified Jubilee is in a shambles and the Cabinet deeply divided.
To cut his political influence to size, President Kenyatta issued an Executive Order in January last year in a reorganisation that gave Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i more powers.
By granting the CS supervisory roles across government, the President whittled his principal assistant's influence and in essence, ended his countrywide tours to launch and commission state projects.
Below are some of the responses arising from Murkomen's tweet;
A Deputy insaburdinating his Boss, going against his words, sitting in cabinet comes out does exact opposite? How abt a deputy so preoccupied with his 2022 ambitions more than anything else? Does any if that promote raising of shilling? We r not fools nani!
— Collins Fredrick🇰🇪 (@Coundo) October 12, 2020
How? Assist by doing what?
— Zakayo Andere 🇰🇪💎 (@ZakayoAndere) October 12, 2020
You celebrated when DP's role were taken over by @FredMatiangi. It has reached a point where even Cabinet secretaries and OCS's disrespects the DP and brags about it.
Uhuru is setting a bad precedence.
This is not how FUTURE DP's should be handled.
Baba talked about borrowing in 2017 and told us that we will have ourselves to blame when he won’t be there anymore to help us Murkomen; On the other hand, No one is fighting the DP, he doesn’t listen, he has to stop campaigns.
— Lillian London (@lillian_owinga) October 12, 2020
I dont think the Government has ever cared about the economy? I sympathize with those being fought but I don't think the Government worries about a "falling or rising shilling." From the start, the Jubilee Coalition was a party of destruction.
— Truth Sanctuary (@truth_henry) October 12, 2020