President Uhuru Kenyatta’s backyard has for the past few months been shed in a bad light with the county’s leadership wrangles taking centre stage.

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The last nail in the coffin to Kiambu’s ailing leadership culminated in the arrest and arraignment of Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu over alleged corruption.

Last week, Waititu was charged alongside his wife, Susan Ndung’u and eight other county employees over the loss of the county’s Sh588 million. The court has since barred him from accessing his office at the county headquarters in Kiambu.

However, Kiambu-based politician Gladys Chania maintains that the county can still reclaim its glory which requires the county assembly to up its game in county governance.

Chania contends that Kiambu MCAs should push for a censure motion against Governor Waititu to step down and conduct independent investigations.

“The MCAs are the oversight and they pass the legislation and budgets. Having done so and seen nothing much going on, they should pressure and push for a censure motion to have the Governor step aside for independent investigations,” Chania said in an exclusive interview with Hivisasa.

She adds that the county has “qualified CeCs who can run the executive roles without the Governor” because they do not need a “misleading CEO.”

Chania opined that all the 12 Kiambu MPs should join hands and support the MCAs in the drive to salvage Kiambu from sinking under Waititu’s leadership.

The politician, who doubles up as a counselling psychologist, further hit out at Waititu saying he portrayed himself as a failed man in his family, by involving his wife in dubious deals that landed her on the dock.

She cites that in the African society, "it is considered a total disregard and disrespect for a man to make a woman stand on the dock because, culturally and biblically, a man is the security and protector of a wife and family.”

“Therefore if he has failed at this level, how can he lead millions of Kiambu people?" she posed.

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