2007 Presidential Elections

Muthama and others including David Musila were 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 Grand Coalition government was formed with ODM Leader Raila Odinga being appointed Prime Minister.

Roles in CORD and NASA

During his term as Senator between 2013 and 2017, he served as the first Senate Minority Whip under the Kenya Constitution 2010. Muthama also co-chaired the Opposition outfit Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD). He went ahead to co-chair the national opposition movement management committee when the coalition transformed itself into National Super Alliance (NASA).

Position on compensation to MPs

As a first time legislator in 2008, being the member of parliament (MP) for Kangundo Constituency, Muthama took a stand^[4] 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.^[5][6] 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.^{[7][8][9][10]} While not being an MP in 2019, he castigated the Kenyan legislators for awarding themselves extra house allowances.^[11]

Position on National Cohesion

In 2020, Muthama has taken an opposing position to the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). He has asked Kenyans not to support the initiative blindly.^[12] He claimed that the initiative to change the Kenyan constitution appeared to amend the Kenya Government structures to address the self-interest of politicians rather than address challenges facing Kenyans. Muthama is reported to have made proposals to the BBI initiative through his Wiper Party. The party is reported to have refused to present Muthama's proposals to the BBI steering committee. This is reported to play out in what is considered a supremacy battle for control of Kenya's lower eastern voting block in Ukambani.^[13] While criticizing the BBI initiative in January 2020, Muthama requested President Uhuru Kenyatta to resist the temptation to cling on to power beyond his second and final constitutional term in 2022.^[14] According to Muthama, the solution to Kenya's perennial problem of election violence and negative ethnicity is the Country's Presidency being held rotationally among its ethnic communities.^[15]

Confrontation with Government

Muthama is one of the politicians who have openly disagreed with Kenya's Jubilee government leadership. He was affiliated to Kalonzo Musyoka, the presumed leader of the Kamba community in Kenya. In early November 2013, 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. In 2013 Muthama's personal security as a legislator was withdrawn. Muthama went public to state that his life was in danger.^[16][17][18] The security withdrawal resulted in public uproar.^[19] Muthama stated that he was not going to relent from speaking the truth in spite of the security withdrawal.

In June 2016, Senator Muthama was among Eight Kenyan politicians arrested for alleged hateful public utterances.^[20] Six of the politicians were later arraigned in court.^[21] 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.^[22]

Position on Komarock land held by KBC

In May 2020, Muthama led members of the public including local politicians in a day-long confrontation^[23] with public administration at a parcel of land in Koma Rock whose title is held by Kenya Broadcasting Cooperation (KBC). Muthama and his colleagues were protesting the surveying of the land parcel for allocation to squatters who hailed from Nairobi. Muthama is also enjoined in a legal dispute on the ownership of the land between the KBC and the Komarock Ranching and Farming Cooperative Society.^[24][25] According to Muthama, the land parcel constitutes community land held in trust for the residents of Matungulu and the larger Machakos County.^[26]