Just a few months ago, Raila Odinga-led Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) admitted to have been in a deep financial crisis and and that it was unable to run some of its operations including grassroots elections.
Suna East MP Junet Mohamed who doubles as the director of elections admitted at a public event in Migori county in March this year that the Orange party was broke and needed to be bailed out to get back to the right track.
The party stated failure by the government to remit the political parties’ funds on time as the cause for its financial crisis.
However, exiled lawyer Dr Miguna Miguna seem not to have read from the same script as ODM.
Miguna is now claiming that the Orange party has been unable to pay rent at Orange house since last year.
According to the self-declared general, in December 2018, Caroli Omondi evicted Raila’s ODM from Orange House.
Miguna states that ODM begged him for an extension of the lease until March 2019 which came but the party failed to honor its pledge.
Miguna says that ODM cannot pay rent at Orange house up to now, accusing the party of getting used to theft and exploitation.
“In Dec. 2018, Caroli Omondi evicted Raila’s @TheODMparty from Orange House. ODM begged him for an extension of the lease until March 2019. March came and went but ODM which recently received Shs. 3 Billion public funds still can’t pay rent. They are used to theft & exploitation,” tweeted Miguna Miguna.
Orange House is the property of Caroli Omondi, who was once the principal administrative secretary in Mr Odinga’s prime minister’s office between 2008 and 2013.
ODM has been using the building since 2006, months after the party was formed.
Last year, ODM denied reports that it was being kicked out of Orange House, insisting that it was to leave out of mutual understanding.
The one-storey building, located in Nairobi’s Kilimani, is the base of ODM’s national secretariat.
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