Mt kenya leaders who met for the infamous Limuru III decided to retain former President Uhuru Kenyatta as the region’s kingpin ahead of the journey to 2027.
Convened in Kabuku, the Limuru III was a meeting aimed to air out issues affecting Mt Kenya region which brought several leaders in a bid to chat the way forward and settled on Uhuru as Kingpin
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In attendance was Martha Karua (NARC-Kenya party leader), Jeremiah Kioni (Jubilee Secretary General), Gathoni Wamuchomba (Githunguri MP), Ndiritu Muriithi (former Laikipia governor), Ferdinand Waititu (former Kiambu governor) among others.
According to the leaders, they resolved to keep former President Uhuru Kenyatta as the kingpin of the region and rubbished claims that there was a new leader to lead the region.
During the meeting, the leaders called on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and Uhuru Kenyatta to convene a meeting and unanimously agree on the region’s direction ahead of the upcoming elections
The Kikuyu Council of Elders chairman Wachira Kiago stated that the region failed Uhuru by declining the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) which constituted the one man one shilling one vote policy.
“He stood with the region at all times and went out of his way to ensure that we(the Mt Kenya people) were catered for. The moment he issued a direction with the BBI, we failed to back him.”
The utterances come barely days after Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua claimed that it’s time to start the one man one shilling talk, an initiative that he strongly campaigned against in 2022, an action that has proved former president right.
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“He had informed the elders to help him to popularise the BBI because if it sailed through, then the Mt Kenya region would be sorted upon his exit,” Kiago noted referring to Uhuru Kenyatta’s BBI initiative.