Johnson Muthama

In December 2018, Muthama announced his intention to vie for the Machakos County Governor Position at planned 2022 General Elections in Kenya. Muthama has since the establishment of County Governments been opposed to the leadership of Alfred Mutua, as Machakos Governor. According to Muthama, any person that will succeed Alfred Mutua as Machakos Governor will face a rough time fixing what he considers as the mess that Mutua will leave behind.

During the 2017 general election he made a bold move not to defend his seat in principal aware he was destined to win.

Johnson Muthama protested the nomination of Wavinya Ndeti as Wiper Party candidate for the office of the Machakos County Governor on the grounds that Wavinya who had been the CCU Party leader had been illegally enlisted into the Wiper party. When the Wiper party declined to rescind its decision to nominate Wavinya Ndeti, Muthama protested by declining to defend his Machakos County Senatorial position during the 2017 General Elections. He stated that it would be pointless to be elected to work alongside Alfred Mutua or Wavinya Ndeti as Governors. Muthama had thrown his support in the Machakos Gubernatorial Contest behind Bernard Kiala who he argued was the legitimate Wiper Candidate In the end, the Wiper Party lost both the Senatorial and Gubernatorial Seat in Machakos County. The Senatorial seat was won by Boniface Kabaka belonging to the less known CCU party. Muthama was reported to have abandoned the Wiper Party amid the challenges of the party primaries.In spite of protesting against The Wiper Party's candidate nomination exercise and declining to defend his Senatorial position, Muthama did not quit the Wiper party.

In June 2016, Senator Muthama was among Eight Kenyan politicians arrested for hateful public utterances. Six of the politicians were later arraigned in court. They were detained for four days in various police stations around Nairobi before reappearing in court. The charges against Senator Muthama were dropped on 28 July 2016.

He served as first Machakos Senator 2013-2017 and was the first to hold the office of Minority Whip under the Kenya Constitution 2010.

In early November 2013, Senator Muthama publicly announced that the government of Uhuru Kenyatta had withdrawn his security due to his stand over the ongoing cases in the international Criminal Court where Uhuru Kenyatta is facing trials. Muthama categorically stated that he was not going to relent from speaking the truth. Muthama has been a case of controversial ongoings.

The Wiper party primaries which were considered to be flawed were argued to explain why the party lost the Machakos County Senatorial position previously held by Muthama, and the Gubernatorial seat retained by Alfred Mutua of MCCP who had used it in the past 2013 elections. This was considered unusual in a region where the party was considered dominant. In 2019, both political allies and foes in Machakos County urged Muthama to abandon the Wiper Party.

Johnstone Nduya Muthama is a Kenyan business man and politician. He belongs to Wiper Democratic Movement-Kenya. He served as second Machakos Senator and was the first to hold the office under the Kenya Constitution 2010. He was also the last MP of larger Kangundo Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya from 2007 to 2013. currently he is the CORD Alliance chief whip in the senate.

As a first time legislator in 2008, being the member of parliament (MP) for Kangundo Constituency, Muthama took a stand that members of parliament are paid too generously. This according to him a situation not in tune with the economic realities of the rest of Kenyans. He earned the reputation of being the first MP to pay tax on his salary. He went against the wishes of the majority of fellow parliamentarians who were resisting the taxation of their salaries and were going as far as increasing their salaries. While not being an MP in 2019, he castigated the Kenyan legislators for awarding themselves extra house allowances.

He was the MP and Government Chief Whip in the 10th Parliament when he served the larger Kangundo Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya from 2007 to 2013.

The Politician cum businessman was instrumental in negotiating for a coalition between retired President Mwai Kibaki and Wiper Leader Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka who became vice president to calm tension after chaos erupted following the controversial 2007 Presidential elections before the Grant Coalition government was formed with ODM Leader Raila Odinga being appointed Prime Minister.

Muthama is credited with assisting financially the former Cabinet Minister Paul Ngei from being declared bankrupt soon after 1979 elections when Standard Bank Ltd served him with a bankruptcy note after it failed to locate Ngei's assets to auction so as to recover Sh2 million debt.