An explosive sexual harassment and cover-up scandal has erupted within the presidential campaign of former Chief Justice David Maraga, threatening to completely derail his 2027 political ambitions and shatter the moral platform of his party, the United Green Movement (UGM).
The crisis burst into the public eye after Shakira Wanjira Wafula, the former Secretary of the Political Committee for Maraga’s campaign, published a meticulous, devastating account detailing predatory behavior by two senior officials, extensive institutional gaslighting, and a complete lack of protective structures for women within the secretariat.
Inside the Demise of David Maraga’s 2027 Moral Platform
The public breaking point occurred following a June 1 anti-femicide sit-in on Kenyatta Avenue in Nairobi. Former Chief Justice David Maraga arrived carrying a massive bouquet of red flowers, waving to the crowd and requesting to speak an overture that protesters flatly declined.
Watching the display from her screen, Wafula who had resigned from the campaign in November 2025 citing vague “differences in foundational values” decided she could no longer remain silent. She blasted the appearance as a cynical public relations stunt, exposing the staggering distance between the candidate’s public posture on women’s safety and the reality inside his campaign machine.
A Timeline of Institutional Betrayal
According to Wafula’s highly detailed disclosures, the internal rot began coming to light in October 2025:
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October 7, 2025: Shakira Wafula met with two other female campaign workers for dinner, realizing that sexual harassment within the campaign was systemic rather than isolated. They discovered the reform-minded campaign had absolutely zero safety policies or reporting mechanisms for misconduct.
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October 16, 2025: After reporting the initial issues to a trusted campaign figure, a wider meeting was called. When even more serious allegations of predatory assault surfaced, senior male officials allegedly told the women: “Women have been through worse, and we would be taught how to fight.” The complainants were then told to draft the safety policy themselves.
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October 22, 2025: The women secured a direct meeting with David Maraga. While he appeared surprised and promised a personal resolution, the campaign progressively sidelined the victims from daily operations while keeping the accused men front and center in public roles.
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November 5, 2025: After demanding formal written complaints from the victims, Maraga deflected the issue, handing it over to the internal UGM party committee, a structure she claims is composed of the accused men’s close political peers.
The Resignation and the Cover-Up
By mid-November, with the institutional process grinding to a crawl and the victims facing systematic isolation, Wafula decided she was finished. On November 16, 2025, she informed Maraga directly that she was leaving.
“His biggest concern from that conversation was not the safety of the women around him, but rather the public scrutiny that would come after my resignation,” Wafula revealed.
When her resignation was made public on November 17, 2025, it was heavily sanitized to protect the campaign. Rumors immediately circulated in political circles that a much harsher initial draft had been heavily redacted to scrub any explicit mention of sexual assault.
Shakira Wafula has now confirmed that a detailed version existed, exposing an immediate institutional effort to bury the crisis.
Neither David Maraga nor the United Green Movement have issued a formal, substantive response to the specific allegations. However, with the detailed timeline now laid bare to the Kenyan electorate, the core thesis of Maraga’s 2027 bid built entirely on a legacy of judicial integrity and ethical governance faces a potentially fatal credibility crisis.
