Editor's Review

Orwoba's stint in the Senate officially came to an end on Friday after the IEBC gazetted her replacement.

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Erastus Ethekon has gazetted a new nominee replacing nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba in the Senate. 

Orwoba was sponsored to the Senate by the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party as a nominated senator.

Ethekon published a gazetted notice on Friday, August 15, indicating Consolata Nabwire as Orwoba's replacement in the upper legislative house.

The notice came days after the High Court in Nairobi threw out Orwoba's petition challenging her expulsion from the UDA party.

Justice Lawrence Mugambi said the matter had been seized of by the Political Parties Disputes Tribunal, which he said was in the position to determine it conclusively.

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Nabwire will now hold the post for the next two years before the 2027 General Election.

Her call-up to the Senate had been blocked by Orwoba's first petition in May after the ruling party resolved to expel her due to apparent indiscipline.

Former nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba.

Orwoba's woes in UDA started when she was spotted in the company of former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i as he jetted back to the country from the United States in April this year.

She was among the leaders who camped at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to receive Matiang'i.

According to UDA, such a display was conduct unbecoming and indicated she was promoting the agendas of other political formations far from the UDA party, which sponsored her to the Senate.

She was summoned to a disciplinary committee, which later resolved to eject her from the party.

Consequently, her seat was declared vacant; she, however, secured an injunction from the High Court that stayed her replacement until recently.

This would add to the trail of other tribulations she had experienced during the year. 

In July, a court in Nairobi slapped her with a KSh 10.5 million fine for alleged defamation against Senate clerk Jeremiah Nyegenye.

Orwoba was found by the court to have defamed the clerk after claiming the latter made sexual advances to her in return for favours in the legislative house.

The court also ordered her to post an apology to Nyegenye through the same medium she used to post her claims.

Meanwhile, the politician has aligned herself with the opposition, eyeing the Bobasi parliamentary seat in the 2027 General Election.

She is in the camp of Matiang'i, who has declared his bid for the presidency.