Most Jubilee MPs boycotted a Parliamentary Group meeting called by their leader President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House, Nairobi, yesterday. Read: Defiant MPs summoned to State HouseThe boycott drew the President’s anger and he reportedly threatened “punitive action” on those who will not attend future Parliamentary Group meetings. Uhuru is said to have demanded discipline and cooperation from his Jubilee Party MPs as Parliament resumed sittings yesterday. The President, who was visibly concerned about the Tuesday attendance, is said to have told his MPs that the Jubilee Party PG meetings were “not voluntary”. “We formed Jubilee as a party of all regions that will remove the politics that breed division, hatred and ethnicity.

Source: The Star February 13, 2018 21:10 UTC