While President William Ruto and his Deputy Rigathi Gachagua were in Nakuru on Sunday, their respective allies, Murkomen and Kahiga exchanged words in the same meeting in Nyeri.
Speaking in favor of their bosses, both Transport Minister Kipchumba Murkomen and Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga beat their trumpets to defend their interests as trouble in UDA persist.
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According to Mutahi Kahiga, some regions were given more funds from the government compared to Mt Kenya yet they did not contribute enough votes in President William Ruto’s 2022 vote basket.
This he said was enough reason to show that the Mt Kenya region has been sidelined by the Kenya Kwanza Government which he says they (Mt Kenya people) invested in heavily through the ballot.
However, Murkomen fired back at Kahiga in the same meeting by telling him that Gachagua, the boss that he (Kahiga) is defending is liable for funds allocation to devolved units.
“You have raised concerns about sugar and coffee funds allocations. You know very well the President tasked Gachagua to deal with coffee and sugar matters. If you speak the way you have done, are you defending him or attacking him?”
Murkomen went ahead to call out the leaders who were siding with Deputy President to stop lying to the people to further their own personal interests and stop referring to Gachagua as a regional leader because he is the Deputy President of Kenya.
If you want your own Deputy President for this area, sit down with Kahiga and plan on it. Let Gachagua go and traverse other parts of the country. He is not a leader of Mt Kenya. He was elected to become the leader of Kenya.
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“If you want your own Deputy President for this area, sit down with Kahiga and plan on it. Let Gachagua go and traverse other parts of the country. He is not a leader of Mt Kenya. I’m really sad that leaders are referring to him as “Mtoto yao”. He was your son when he was Mathira MP. Right now, he is a son of Kenya.”