{"id":127816,"date":"2026-01-04T06:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/junet-muhoho-locked-raila-out-of-key-campaign-nerve-centre\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T06:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T06:08:22","slug":"junet-muhoho-locked-raila-out-of-key-campaign-nerve-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/junet-muhoho-locked-raila-out-of-key-campaign-nerve-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Junet: Muhoho locked Raila out of key campaign nerve centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 4 \u2014 National Assembly Minority Leader Junet Mohamed has claimed Muhoho Kenyatta, operated a highly restricted Azimio la Umoja campaign nerve centre in Nairobi\u2019s Westlands that was inaccessible even to presidential candidate Raila Odinga, amid a fresh fallout from the coalition\u2019s 2022 General Election loss .<\/strong><\/p>\n

Junet, who served in the Azimio la Umoja campaign secretariat, said the Westlands office was at the centre of decisions on the recruitment and payment of election agents\u2014an exercise that ultimately collapsed, leaving Raila without agents in key regions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is from this office\u2014out of bounds for nearly all of us, including the candidate\u2014that they claimed to handle agents\u2019 payments and other logistics. These are facts, not conjecture,\u201d Junet said in a statement issued Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Suna East MP placed responsibility for the agents\u2019 failure squarely on former President Uhuru Kenyatta and his brother Muhoho, dismissing allegations that he mishandled campaign funds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe answer is simple, clear, and verifiable: former President Uhuru Kenyatta released the funds meant for election agents to his blood brother, Muhoho Kenyatta,\u201d Junet said.<\/p>\n

According to Junet, Muhoho subsequently appointed a man identified as Patrick Mburu to oversee the recruitment and payment of agents.<\/p>\n

Mburu, Junet said, presented himself as an IT expert capable of detecting and preventing manipulation of results by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).<\/p>\n

Junet further claimed that Mburu remains a close aide to the former president, citing his recent travel to Nigeria alongside Uhuru Kenyatta and Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka as evidence of his continued proximity to top political figures.<\/p>\n

He maintained that no agents were ultimately deployed for Raila Odinga in key regions, including Mt Kenya and Luo Nyanza, describing the episode as \u201ca long con game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Junet also rejected claims that he betrayed Odinga, arguing that his continued elevation within ODM contradicted such accusations.<\/p>\n

\u201cHon. Raila Odinga would have had no reason whatsoever to appoint me as Leader of Minority in the National Assembly if I had truly betrayed him,\u201d Junet said, adding that he had handled sensitive party assignments \u201cwith fidelity and diligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The remarks were made in response to renewed accusations by Nairobi Senator and ODM Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna, who accused Junet of deflecting blame and questioned when funds from Uhuru Kenyatta allegedly became problematic.<\/p>\n

Sifuna insisted that Uhuru was a key financier of the Odinga campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe funds that we in ODM used for our campaigns largely came from former President Uhuru Kenyatta. He supported us in every possible way,\u201d Sifuna said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to ask Junet: when exactly did Uhuru\u2019s money become bad? When you were receiving it, which portion did you fail to remit to the party and instead spend with your wives?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sifuna said the renewed public debate was timely as ODM prepares to audit the 2022 election, calling on all leaders to openly account for their roles during the campaign.<\/p>\n

He also dismissed claims that ODM had shifted its political stance ahead of the 2027 General Election, maintaining that Raila Odinga has never endorsed President William Ruto for a second term.<\/p>\n

\u201cRaila told me clearly that Ruto must go home in 2027,\u201d Sifuna said.<\/p>\n

The exchange has exposed widening cracks within ODM and the broader Azimio coalition as the 2027 polls draw closer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 4 \u2014 National Assembly Minority Leader Junet Mohamed has claimed Muhoho Kenyatta, operated a highly restricted Azimio la Umoja campaign nerve centre in Nairobi\u2019s Westlands that was inaccessible even to presidential candidate Raila Odinga, amid a fresh fallout from the coalition\u2019s 2022 General Election loss . Junet, who served in the Azimio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}