The High Court has halted the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party’s disciplinary hearing against Nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba.
Originally scheduled for Friday, the hearing has been stopped pending the resolution of a legal challenge she filed contesting the party’s actions against her.
Orwoba had been summoned to the UDA disciplinary committee at the Hustler Centre over allegations that she violated the party’s code of conduct by attending former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i’s homecoming events and publicly criticising the government’s labour mobility program during a radio interview on April 22, 2025.
Instead of attending the hearing, Orwoba appeared with her legal team and presented the High Court’s conservatory order suspending the proceedings.
The UDA disciplinary committee, through chair Charles Njenga, had accused her of showing allegiance to another political movement and disloyalty to the party that nominated her as senator.
Orwoba regretted that the disciplinary process is a political witch hunt aimed at silencing dissent within the party and that attending a community homecoming event is bipartisan and not a breach of loyalty.