Former Nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba has taken a swipe at her former colleagues in the Senate, accusing them of abandoning serious issues in favour of personal dramas that make headlines.
“The only thing that has hit the newspapers about the women I left in the Senate is that they are now suing their ex-fiancés,” Orwoba said in an interview with Spice FM on Thursday, August 21.
Orwoba argued that her removal from the Senate did not advance the women’s agenda as promised, and instead left a vacuum on key policy issues.
“What has William Ruto gained? Has he gained any support from women because he removed me? Since he removed me, have they implemented all the issues in the Women’s Charter?” she posed.
She further accused Parliament, and especially the Senate, of operating with unprecedented levels of impunity.
“In Parliament, staff members, if you talk to them off camera, will tell you they’ve never seen such impunity, especially in the Senate,” Orwoba charged.
Turning to corruption, Orwoba maintained that she had long been vindicated by President William Ruto’s own admission that graft thrives within Parliament.
“When the President stood and said there’s corruption in Parliament, that he has seen it and even pointed fingers, how come they didn’t say he has a mental health issue the way they told me?” she asked.
She added that the President’s comments had validated her earlier stance.
“Gloria Orwoba is right, and the President is correct for echoing my sentiments. I, Gloria, have always maintained that corruption exists in Parliament, and what the President is now saying confirms that I’m right.”
Orwoba went further, challenging Ruto to look closer at his own government.
“As you’re pointing the guns at these MPs, look at your Cabinet when you sit there. Look at those faces, and investigate him,” she dared.
Orwoba’s lifeline?
On the same day Orwoba’s replacement in the Senate – Consolata Nabwire Wakwabubi – was sworn in, the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal (PPDT) was quashing the decision by the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) disciplinary committee to expel her from the party over alleged misconduct.
The tribunal ruled that the disciplinary proceedings were marred by legal lapses and irregularities, adding that the process appeared calculated to remove Orwoba from the party.
Orwoba has since filed a petition at the High Court challenging the changes in the Senate.
In the interview, Orwoba insisted she remains the true nominated senator, urging her successor to chart her own path.
“I am going to the Senate. I am the nominated senator. I know she might also believe that she is nominated, that’s good for her. To each their own; chart your own path.”
