Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei has rejected Jubilee's decision to transfer him to the Powers and Privileges Committee after being removed as the chair of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee.
"I'm not interested... it's too low," he said on Tuesday.
Cherargei claimed the party was 'disciplining' members selectively, saying Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru campaigned against Jubilee's candidate for the Kibra MP by-election McDonald Mariga.
Waiguru attended a campaign rally for ODM's candidate Imran Okoth alongside party leader Raila Odinga in November last year.
He said Jubilee was targeting lawmakers from the Rift Valley.
Cherargei, speaking during an interview with Citizen TV, however, said he would not leave Jubilee.
"How can you leave your own house," he said.
The Jubilee purge in the Senate continued on Tuesday with the party announcing changes which appear to push out lawmakers aligned to the Deputy President William Ruto from key positions.
The changes announced by newly installed Senate majority whip Senator Irungu Kang'ata, saw Ruto allies removed from the leadership of key committees and being replaced by perceived party loyalists.
In the changes, Senator Christopher Lang'at (Bomet) has been replaced at the House Business Committee by Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja.
Lang'at also lost his post as Education Committee chairman to Senator Alice Milgo.
Meru Senator Linturi Mithika also lost his membership at the powerful Senate County Public Accounts and Investment Committee.
Linturi has been replaced by Senator Fatuma Dullo.
John Kinyua will also lose his position as the chairman of the Devolution Committee in the Tuesday changes.
Former Senate majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen will now be a member of the Devolution Committee.
The changes according to Kang'ata have been communicated to the Senate speaker Ken Lusaka for immediate implementation.
Last Friday, seven Ruto allies, all Jubilee members, voted to save the Tharaka Nithi Senator Kithure Kindiki, with an overwhelming majority of 54 senators endorsing his removal.
Kindiki was removed for being disloyal to the President after he skipped a meeting called by the Jubilee party leader to change the House leadership.
However, Kang’ata said they will not undertake ethnic profiling in reorganising the committees but maintained that some those who voted against the motion will face the music.
“We shall not undertake ethnic profiling, hence some of those that voted against [the motion] may survive. We don’t’ intend for example to recall our PSC (Parliamentary Service Commission) commissioner. But some will definitely face the sanctions,” he said.
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