Homa Bay Governor Wanga has maintained that the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) will continue advocating and seeking redress of ills from the government while maintaining its position in the broad-based arrangement, remarks that lie in stark contrast to those made recently by the party’s Secretary General Edwin Sufuna.

Speaking on Sunday, June 15, 2025, the ODM National Chairperson affirmed that ODM will pursue the agendas signed with the UDA party while inside the government, contradicting Sifuna’s calls for the party to dissolve its association following the death of the slain teacher.

Wanga, while reiterating the very comment she made after the murder of Kasipul MP Ong’ondo Were, reiterated calls for justice for slain teacher Albert Ojwang. A call she says has also been voiced by his party leader, Raila Odinga, and President William Ruto.

“As the ODM party, we have signed an agreement with UDA, which includes inclusivity and stopping the extrajudicial killings. As I speak today, there has been no going back on that broad-based, we are in it: we are already inside, and we will stick there demanding justice for the end of extrajudicial killings from there,” she stated.

“We want justice expedited; we don’t want it by word. We have seen people being arrested and charged. What Kenyans want to know is who orchestrated this murder and for what reason. These people must be brought to book,” she stated.

“Baba and Ruto have spoken the same thing. Everyone wants to know what happens. We are all united in this and call for justice,” he added. 

Sifuna’s declaration

Sifuna, on Saturday, June 15, 2025, sensationally stated that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two parties ceases to exist following Albert Ojwang’s death in detention hours after he was arrested by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations hours after his arrest.

“If you ask me, as Sifuna, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of the Orange Democratic Party and the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) is of no use as I speak today.

According to Sifuna, the agreement was breached when young people in the country started dying mysteriously nationwide.

“We agreed that young people will not be killed, and a young man is picked from their homestead and murdered in a police cell. The other day, we saw two other young people from Elgeyo Marakwet beaten and thrown in Nakuru, and another one in the Katitu police station. “That’s why I am saying that MOU has no use,” he declared.

“It doesn’t matter what else Ruto does; that agreement is dead. The only way you can breathe life into that agreement is by resurrecting Albert Ojwang’s life alongside others who have died in the recent past,” he added.

Wanga’s latest statement follows after Raila, in a past address, unequivocally announced that Sifuna’s statements reflect the ODM party position.

Speaking on May 9, 2025, over their working relationship with the Kenya Kwanza administration, Raila implored the party secretary general to measure his words while rebuking President William Ruto’s administration, in which some key members from the outfit serve as cabinet secretaries.

“The spokesman of the party is usually the secretary general, Mr Sifuna. So when Sifuna speaks, he speaks on behalf of the party,” Raila stated during the funeral service of the late Kasipul MP Charles Ong’ondo Were on Friday, May 9, 2025.