i dont its 'punish'. They were just selecting those suited best to handle the task. you cant trust someone who did not want the laws in the first place to implement them. When we use 'punish' it makes it sound like they were qualified for the job but were deliberately sidelined.

william ruto is a key factor of who will become the next president of kenya if he gives it a shot raila takes it kalonzo only chance if ruto refuses to run and some bigshots at ODM have realised and want to frustrate him so that he will run against RAO

@Njunge,

You are right, i think ODM shouldnt have stooped that low as to remove them from the party. Just not including them in the oversight committee was enough if we are to move forward.

If Raila is able to bring together the clique yes had, it wont matter what Ruto does. Ruto might just be a dying horse. Remember, for the referendum, majority of the No sayers were because of the church's stand, not because of Ruto. In his own constituency, there were many who did not listen to him..... and kalenjins are divided too as you saw some on the yes camp..... they can use that against him - in that, he 'misled' the 'community' in 2010 and segregated them when the country was going in a different direction.

I do not look up to Hon. Ruto as a leader given his past shenanigans in YK '92, in the KANU government and even in the Grand Confusion (Maize saga).

HOWEVER...
Methinks arap Samoei brings a semblance of balance to Orange House. Chucking his clique would reduce ODM to a mere Raila Cheer-leading Squad (Midiwo, Nyong'o, Orengo, Mudavadi et al) - kinda like KANU....with different party colours.

As far as implementation goes, I'd say a voice of dissent or two wouldn't hurt. Just coz you're all in consensus doesn't mean you're headed in the right direction, innit?

The last thing Kenya needs is implementation of the new constitution driven by euphoria bila sobriety.

@Maskuma, bepari et al...you may realise that the utterances by Ny'ong'o and co. was stage managed, since RAO's rejoinder (on jogoo road), was quite different....this is politics brothers/sisters. RAO now seems to be embracing the NOist