{"id":72467,"date":"2024-07-31T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T10:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/chaos-at-uda-headquarters-as-malala-led-faction-clashes-with-group-backing-khalende\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T10:07:18","slug":"chaos-at-uda-headquarters-as-malala-led-faction-clashes-with-group-backing-khalende","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/chaos-at-uda-headquarters-as-malala-led-faction-clashes-with-group-backing-khalende\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaos at UDA headquarters as Malala-led faction clashes with group backing Khalende"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Jul 31-Chaos has rocked the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) headquarters after supporters of the party secretary general Cleophas Malala stormed the offices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This unfolded even as the self-declared secretary general Joe Khalende walked out of the headquarters visibly injured on the head with blood spilt on his shirt.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-Malala supporters attempted to access the headquarters but police officers had cordoned the area as they shouted slogans in support of the UDA secretary general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBado mapambano,bado mapambano,bado mapambano,\u201dthe supporters were heard singing and shouting as they carried placards.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Khalende led a group of UDA members to push for the removal of Malala as Secretary-General.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer announced himself as the new acting Secretary General insisting that Malala has been barred from carrying out any functions of the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>The group accused Malala of sabotaging the Broad-Based Government formed by party leader President William Ruto and his ODM counterpart Raila Odinga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has gone against our party leader\u2026he is on the forefront against the formation of a broad-based government and I am here to confirm that he is no longer the SG of the UDA party. I Joe Khalende will be taking over as the SG of the UDA party,\u201d Khalende stated.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Jul 31-Chaos has rocked the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) headquarters after supporters of the party secretary general Cleophas Malala stormed the offices. This unfolded even as the self-declared secretary general Joe Khalende walked out of the headquarters visibly injured on the head with blood spilt on his shirt. The pro-Malala supporters attempted to [&hellip;]<\/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-72467","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\/72467","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=72467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}