Former House Majority Leader Aden Duale Senator Kipchumba Murkomen (Elgeyo Marakwet) and Susan Kihika (governor-elect of Nakuru) are all key Ruto allies who lost their positions during the power struggle between Ruto and Kenyatta for control of the Jubilee party in the last mandate...
In what party insiders see as youthful effrontery Johnson joined forces with other young senators across the aisle notably ODM's Ledama Olekina Wiper's Mutula Kilonzo Jr and key Ruto ally Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen to defeat the government's attempts at pushing through the motion...
At a hurriedly convened Jubilee senators' meeting at State House on 11 May a clutch of pro-Kenyatta senators endorsed the removal of Senate majority leader Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen and the Chief Whip Susan Wakarura Kihika...
Jubilee's Senate majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen tore into Mohammed for favouring ODM delegates and pro-Odinga speakers allied to the Tanga Tanga faction...
Also Ruto's political supporters among the Kalenjin led by Senators Kipchumba Murkomen and Aaron Cheruyot and among the Bukusu branch of the Luhya under Sirisia MP John Waluke persist in believing a genuine assassination plot against Ruto was being hatched at La Mada...