Merger plans for Jubilee Coalition parties neared takeoff point last week when Uhuru Kenyatta was handed a report on the proposed Jubilee Party which is to be launched in September. But it is the mindbogglingly staggering amount set aside for the new party launch that has tongues wagging ceaselessly.

The feuds bedevilling Njuri Ncheke Council of Elders caucus will never end soon if the current squabbles are anything to go by.
Already, politics has taken centre stage within the council ahead of next year’s polls. A camp allied to Governor Peter Munya has sworn to back him against Senator Kiraitu Murungi who is shifting from the senate to county politics.