Fresh cracks have opened within the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) after Minority Leader Junet Mohammed issued a blistering response to party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna over the controversial handling of election agents during the 2022 General Election.
In a hard-hitting statement, Junet dismissed Sifuna’s challenge to explain why ODM agents were allegedly neither deployed nor paid at polling stations, insisting the truth is “simple, clear and verifiable.” According to Junet, the funds meant for agents were released by former President Uhuru Kenyatta to his brother, Muhoho Kenyatta, effectively placing the entire operation outside the party’s control.
Junet claims Muhoho Kenyatta subsequently appointed one Patrick Mburu to oversee the recruitment and payment of agents. Mburu, he said, presented himself as an IT expert capable of safeguarding results from manipulation by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).
“To date, Mr. Mburu remains an aide of Uhuru Kenyatta,” Junet asserted, pointing to Mburu’s recent trip to Nigeria alongside Uhuru Kenyatta and Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka as evidence that he was no minor operative in the 2022 campaign machinery.
The Minority Leader further alleged that Muhoho Kenyatta operated from a tightly guarded office in Westlands—so restricted that even ODM’s presidential candidate Raila Odinga allegedly could not access it freely. From this nerve centre, Junet claims, election agent payments and logistics were supposedly managed.
“These are facts, not conjecture,” Junet said, daring Uhuru and Muhoho Kenyatta to publicly deny the claims.
In perhaps his most damning charge, Junet alleged that once the Kenyatta-linked team took charge, no agents were procured for Raila Odinga—neither in the vote-rich Mt Kenya region nor in Raila’s Luo Nyanza backyard—describing the entire operation as “a long con game.”
Junet also moved to defend his own political integrity, dismissing any insinuation of betrayal. He argued that Raila Odinga would never have appointed him Leader of Minority in the National Assembly if there had been any truth to claims that he undermined the party’s 2022 campaign.
“For years, I handled delicate assignments for our late dear party leader with fidelity and diligence,” he said.
The Minority Leader has now thrown down the gauntlet, calling on Uhuru Kenyatta, Muhoho Kenyatta, Patrick Mburu and Senator Edwin Sifuna to “come clean” on the fate of the agents’ money.
“Kenyans deserve the truth—who controlled the funds, who mishandled them, and who ultimately cost us the election,” Junet declared, promising that more revelations are yet to come.
As the dust begins to rise, Junet’s claims are set to ignite fresh debate over the conduct of the 2022 campaign—and could reshape the power dynamics within ODM and the wider opposition camp.
