Lucas Barasa
29 June 2008
Nairobi — Narc-Kenya has struck out positions held by President Kibaki and former Vice-President Moody Awori from its leadership structure as it moved to re-invigorate itself ahead of the 2012 General Election.
The party abolished the positions of party leader and deputy party leader held by President Kibaki and Mr Awori respectively as it announced it will field its own presidential, parliamentary and civic candidates in the coming polls.
Ms Martha Karua (chairperson), Mr Danson Mungatana (organising secretary) and Mr Asman Kamama (secretary-general) announced on Saturday the 10 vice-chairmen slots had also been removed and that the party will now only have one vice-chairman.
"We have reduced the number of national executive council officials. The amendments will be included in the new constitution to be adopted when we will have the national delegates conference," Mr Mungatana told journalists after the party retreat at Naivasha's Simba Lodge.
Ms Karua, who has declared that she will be running for president in 2012, enumerated a number of measures to revamp the two-year-old party; reinvigorate all its branches, ensure participatory decision making, encourage competition for elective office at all levels and work to be financially viable.
Narc-Kenya will also move swiftly to ensure compliance with the Political Parties Act that comes into operation on July, said Ms Karua, who also the justice and constitutional affairs minister.
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