Central Kenya region will no longer play host to leaders without any agenda other than empty political rhetoric.
Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua has said that him and other elected leaders from the region are concerned with the rate at which Central Kenya was being used by politicians with 'no development track record' to preach division in the society.
“They are doing rounds in Mt Kenya, talking nothing that is of value to the people. Their only business is to abuse other leaders. Central Kenya, and the country at large, will not tolerate such behaviours. If they are to tour this region and elsewhere, let them bring development to the people,”Gachagua said on Wednesday without mentioning names.
The vocal MP who spoke at Maragua, Murang’a County, in the company of Deputy President William Ruto during a public rally, added that Kenyans had moved away from the 'archaic politics' of ethnicity, division and hatred.
"Our people and Kenyans at large are now only accommodating those leaders who are after making their lives better. Those other opportunists who have always thrived on ethnicity and divisive politics have no chance in today's Kenya," he added.
Opposition Chief Raila Odinga has on many occasions been accused by DP Ruto's allies of taking advantage of his famous handshake with President Uhuru Kenyatta to split the Jubilee Party for his own political gains.
It is, however, not clear whether it is Raila that the Mathira MP was referring to but on Sunday Raila had led a team of ODM MPs to Gatanga Constituency in the same county where some MPs made controversial remarks pointing at Kiharu MP who was then said to be planning to take a bill to parliament to have the DCI investigative powers curtailed.