Posted on March, 28, 2017 at 10:22 am
Mbeere South Member of Parliament Mutava Musyimi has launched a scathing attack on Embu governor Martin Wambora and his rival for the seat Senator Lenny Kivuti, accusing them of orchestrating tribal divisions in the county.
He accused Wambora of supervising the adjudication and sub-division of the 45,000-acre Mwea Trust land in Mbeere South that has seen residents of a particular community denied their rightful share.
The legislator claimed Kivuti was the mastermind of what he calls an injustice that is almost generating into a deadly crisis. He accused the two leaders of issuing the land to outsiders to the detriment of others who have lived in the land for many years.
“This is a crisis that the two leaders have brought here in Embu, how will you convince people to leave their land so that they can be occupied by outsiders, this is a time bomb,” he said. He, however, said the courts have stopped and further sub-division and issuance of the title deeds.
Musyimi said he is now consulting his community elders on who to support as the next governor of Embu, but hinted they will either support Runyenjes MP Cecily Mbarire or World Bank consultant Kithinji Kiragu.
Meanwhile, some Embu residents have reacted angrily to the county government’s Sh40 million school milk programme that was launched by Wambora on Saturday.
They vented their frustrations on social media stating that the funds would instead have benefited the society more if they were used to connect homes in the semi-arid Mbeere region to piped water instead of buying milk for the 17,000 nursery school children.
Many social media users charged that it was foolhardy for the county to purport to help children by giving them free milk, yet their mothers walked laden with jerrycans for tens of kilometres in search of water to feed or wash the same children with.
However, County Assembly Budget and Appropriation Committee chairman Joseph Mwaniki said the school milk programme was anchored in a three-year fiscal framework for the county and could be reviewed once a new government is in place.
Source: MediaMax Network