Busia Senator and human Okiya Omtatah has accused President William Ruto and Raila Odinga of subverting the Kenyan constitution through a civilian coup following the signed political pact between the two.

Despite the much-publicized Friday, March 7, 2025 deal being labelled a memorandum of understanding with its terms of engagement spelt out in a 10-point agenda, Omtatah dismissed it as an unlawful attempt to establish a new government and a stripping of powers to the organs mandate to keep the government in check.

In his assertion while speaking to a local radio station on Monday March 17, the senator detailed the several schemes undertaken by the principals to legitimize their actions.

The riled senator contended that the coup was staged through the sharing of power, overturning parliamentary committee leadership, and other implicit plans geared to shift power away from the structures mandated with oversight.

“That (the MOU) is a nonsense. Article 3, Clause 2 says any attempt to establish a government contrary to what is established in the constitution is unlawful. Tell me where in the constitution you can get broad-based government. It’s unconstitutional,” he asserted.

“They have established a government called broad-based. They have shared power and overturned committees in parliament. It might not be lawful but it is de-facto, like a civilian coup against the people of Kenya. It is what Raila and Ruto have done,” he added.

Omtata has further decried a looming state of weakened oversight of the government, stressing that the watchdog responsibility is now almost non-functional with the recent happenings in parliament.

“Why should there be an MoU, when you have got parliament? Donated power is exercised through parliament, Not KICC! That is the coup that power is being handled outside the structures of power.  When we elected people we did so for others to go to parliament and others to the state house,” he added.

The senator’s remarks are a continuation of his sustained criticism of the March 7 deal which he castigated just moments after Raila and Ruto inked the agreement on paper.

Speaking during the concluded People’s Dialogue Festival at Uhuru Park on the material day, Omtatah termed the deal as a betrayal of the plight of ordinary Kenyans. The senator asserted that the implementation of the constitution should take precedence over the NADCO report advocated by Raila and Ruto’s camps.

“I’m requesting you as people that any body supporting NADCO must be destroyed form public life, arudi kwa private life. Are you ready? We must destroy NADCO and say the constitution as it is must be implemented as it 100 per cent, if it doesn’t work, we can move to amend it,” Omtata declared.

“You cannot have a vehicle with a big engine but you have removed the wheels and claim it cannot move. Put back the wheels and see it moving. So implement the constitution or nothing,” he said.

Omtata has challenged Kenyans to take a stand against the proposals touted by the Raila-Ruto deal which he claims will take Kenyan back in the past.

“A war has been declared today. Raila Odinga and Ruto have declared war on the future of this country. They want to take us back to the past, We have said we are not going there. We can’t accept this. We are going forward and we are ready to take them on and destroy them,” he added.