Igembe South MP Mithika Linturi. Linturi, who chairs the Meru Parliamentary Group, and his Maara counterpart Kareke Mbiuki, accused the President of failing to honour three appointments with local leaders. FILE PHOTO
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A new wave of rebellion against the Jubilee government is emerging from the Mt Kenya region after two TNA MPs accused the President of sidelining sections of the region when making appointments.
The MPs, led by Igembe South MP Mithika Linturi, who chairs the Meru Parliamentary Group, and his Maara counterpart Kareke Mbiuki, accused the President of failing to honour three appointments with local leaders.
The two told the Sunday Nation Saturday that Meru leaders are also unhappy with the President’s method of sharing state jobs and criticised the appointment of former Head of Public Service Francis Muthaura as the chairman of the multi-billion-shilling Lapsset Corridor Development Authority.
“We have made five attempts since June to meet him and he has been unavailable. His appointments are skewed in favour of one part of Meru while Tharakas and Nyambenes have been sidelined. We can’t tolerate this,” Mr Linturi said.
He said all the 21 Meru MPs will meet today to discuss their concerns before they can pronounce their next course of action. The two MPs accused the President of taking them for granted, adding that his handlers don’t take the community seriously.
“We supported TNA and the President on account that his government would address inequalities in our region. We want him to know that we are not blood relatives and for that matter our support is not permanent,” said the angry MPs.
He said that at one time they prepared a memorandum and handed it over to the then Head of Public Service Francis Kimemia who forwarded it to the President, but their request to visit State House was not honoured.
“We are going to meet Mr Muthaura in his home soon to plead with him to decline the President’s appointment so that it can go to a marginalised group within the region,” said Mr Linturi.
Mr Mbiuki did not have kind words for the President, too, warning that his latest appointment had just confirmed concerns already raised by Nandi Hills MP Alfred Keter.
“It is true that the Meru leadership has been trying to see the President and we have not succeeded. We are concerned that power is beginning to get into the head of the President and his Deputy but we will let them know that we are the people who put them there,” Mr Mbiuki said.
“Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi and Internal PS Mutea Iringo are from one village. Is this the equity the President and his Deputy talked about? Why should someone think of appointing Muthaura to a public office, we can’t take this,” Mr Mbiuki said.
He said the President and his Deputy will face open rebellion from disgruntled MPs who were only buying time hoping things will get better.
“We will join hands with Mr Keter who has been saying the truth all along. Only that we were holding our horses thinking the President would hear him,” said Mr Mbiuki. Mr Linturi and Mr Mbiuki were pillars of Mr Kenyatta’s campaign in Meru.
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