Reprieve for Senator Orwoba as High Court stops UDA disciplinary proceedings

The High Court has stopped a disciplinary hearing by the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party against Nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba that was supposed to take place on Friday until a case the lawmaker has filed challenging the party’s action against her is heard and determined.

Orwoba had been summoned to appear before the disciplinary committee at the Hustler Centre, but instead arrived with her legal team to present the High Court order.

The Senator has been accused of allegedly contravening the party’s code of conduct, by attending the homecoming ceremony of former Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr. Fred Matiang’i, and openly criticizing the government’s labour mobility programme in an interview on Spice FM on April 22, 2025.

“Your participation in these events and the utterances made therein provide clear evidence of allegiance to another political movement, actions deemed unbecoming, and disloyalty to the party that nominated you to the position of Senator in the Senate of the Republic of Kenya,” UDA disciplinary committee Charles Njenga told Orwoba in a letter last week.

The Senator, after appearing with her legal team on Friday, however retorted: ““If you look at what is happening, it means that now you will be afraid to raise an issue on the floor of the House because some rogue people here and there might come and use party machinery to silence you. And we must work independently; I am nominated, I am loyal.

On the issue of Dr. Fred Matiang’I, I come from a community, we have social events which are bipartisan…a homecoming is bipartisan.”