Meru Members of county assembly (MCAs) have launched a new fight against their Governor, Kawira Mwangaza.
According to reports, the members resolved to halt Kawira Mwangaza’s One Cow, One Needy Family Program that aims to provide one cow for each family in Meru.
This comes after a debate held on Wednesday, March 27 where the MCAs voted to scrap the program, citing irregularities in the execution process which they claim lack of transparency in the creation of a committee for the program to questionable prices for acquired cows.
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Speaking to the press after the assembly meeting, Kianjai Ward MCA Ken Naibae noted that Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza failed to follow policy guidelines when executing the program.
“Today at the Assembly, we had a debate and decided to halt the cow program because it has not been following policy guidelines.”
Naibae, also the head of the Agriculture Committee in the County, further claimed that Mwangaza had yet to share a detailed guideline for the program execution, which was confusing operations within the sector
“When the exercises are taking place, whether it is the distribution of cows or goats, people are always fighting and we can’t trace the beneficiaries. This program is being conducted in the dark, we won’t allow county matters to be conducted in the dark.”
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The fight between Governor Mwangaza and the MCAs over the introduction of various projects in the county has persisted for a long period, as most of the legislators opposed her plans.
Some of the opposed projects include; the distribution of 5,115 dairy goats and 400, 000 cross-breed chickens, and 1,200 cows under her ‘One Dairy Cow One Family’ programme to needy families.