STATEMENT BY GOVERNOR ALFRED MUTUA ABOUT THE PLANNED CORD/WIPER MEETING IN

MACHAKOS
I have heard that there will be a WIPER Leaders meeting to be held in Machakos followed by a political rally. I
wish to state the following 10 points:
1. I have NOT been invited to the meeting or asked to help organize it on behalf of my Party although it is being
held in my town. I have therefore, asked my deputy governor Bernard Kiala who, like me is a Wiper member, to
represent me in the meeting.
2. I request the organizers of the CORD/WIPER meeting and rally to desist from violence, incitement and hate
speech.
In the last Wiper meeting held in Machakos at Maanzoni a few months ago, organized goons, allegedly
answerable to some Wiper leaders, violently confronted Hon. Bishop Mutemi and Hon. Regina Ndambuki. The
party meeting was also very confrontational against the two MPs whose only crime was standing my leadership
of politics of development rather than politics of poverty.
3. I am a peace loving leader and believer in freedom of assembly and expression. Machakos residents are
also peaceful people. The behavior of intolerance and insults that we have seen creeping into some Wiper
leaders since Wiper became part of CORD are shameful and should not be tolerated.
**4. We have been reliably informed that the Machakos rally will be used to confuse and mislead our people
that Wiper Party Leader will be endorsed as the sole presidential candidate for CORD. We also have
information that that this endorsement will not be based on truth.
The strategy is to keep our people in the fold until it's too late in the day to make any alternative decisions and
political arrangements. For the sake of transparency, clarity and in respect of the MOU signed between ODM
and WIPER in the run up to the 2013 elections, if Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka will be the sole CORD Presidential
candidate, we challenge the other CORD principals to declare publicly in Machakos tomorrow that they WILL
NOT be running as Presidential candidates.
The leaders should also be aware that out people are smart and have good and long memories and will not
accept to be lied to and used when goal posts are shifted before the general elections.
5.It is clear that the Machakos meeting has been called as a response to the launching of the people-centered
Maendeleo Chap Chap Movement. The Machakos meeting was announced by our Wiper leader in reference to
the MCC Movement launch and initially planned for January 16th but postponed to January 22, 2016.
THE REALITY ABOUT MAENDELEO CHAP CHAP MOVEMENT AND WIPER
After the launch of Maendeleo Chap Chap Movement which is meant to galvanize all our efforts towards rapid
development, there was a flurry of statements issued by senior WIPER Party leaders against me.
6. This took me by surprise because, as a member of WIPER party, I did not expect my party to come out so
strongly against development of the people of our country who have languished in poverty for many years. The
launch of the movement never mentioned any person negatively or attacked WIPER party.
7. I was perturbed by demands that I get out of WIPER and run for re-election JUST because I had decried the
high unemployment in Kenya and especially in Ukambani where our youth and their parents have become
apathetic and desperate.
8. It was interesting to listen to senior Honorable members question the importance of the development
programs that we have carried out for the benefit of our people, such as the construction of Tarmac roads and
improved health care.
9. It was even entertaining to hear some of the leaders claim that they will not allow any development projects
that create wealth, provide water to our mothers and hope to our children to be undertaken in Machakos.

Entertaining, not only because the words were being spoken in a Church function, but also because they
reflected an era that is way gone where politicians kept their people in wretchedness for the sake of political
supremacy and expediency
10. It was equally disturbing to hear senior lawyers who are members of the party, and who understand the
constitution better than I do, shamelessly participate in the political mob justice and throw the tenets of free
expression, ability to develop new ideas and come up with new political paradigms as envisioned by our
constitution through the window
I humbly welcome the CORD/WIPER leaders to our county and wish all of them a wonderful meeting. I will get
a brief from my deputy governor later. Indeed Machakos is the place to be.
I also welcome them to take some time and see firsthand the many development projects we have
implemented through our chap chap philosophy
I also request all leaders to embrace Maendeleo Chap Chap Movement as we all work together for the
development of our people - that is the will of Almighty God and the reason we are elected as leaders.
Dr. Alfred N. Mutua
January 21st, 2016.