Details have emerged on Sagana State Lodge meeting, which saw President Uhuru Kenyatta meet a delegation from Mt Kenya region and its 'diaspora'.
A closely guarded meeting before taking place, the gathering has further divided leaders from the region, with the elected MPs decrying of discrimination.
According to the Standard, local administrators were tasked to work with leaders to come with a list of 20 delegates from each constituency.
Central Imenti MP Kirima Nguchine, who is a DP Ruto ally and was away in Oman, told the Standard that each delegate received Sh5,000 after the meeting.
“We were well represented and my delegates got their Sh5,000 allowance and I loved the tone coming from the President,” said Mr Kirima adding that in December he will be lead a 150 delegation of Buuri, North Imenti and Central Imenti church leaders to a State House meeting.
During the meeting, Uhuru urged leaders to desist from opposing Building Bridges Initiative report, arguing that they should wait for its release.
But the meeting has seen leaders allied to DP William Ruto hitting back.
Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua and his Gatundu South counterpart Moses Kuria have been vocal.
Mr Rigathi claimed that organisers of the meeting “terribly failed the President.”
Speaking on a live TV show, the MP said issues afflicting Mt Kenya residents were not well articulated.
“Some people are like the night bird that closes its eyes and ears and starts singing and the only thing it can hear in the forest is its own voice. That was the design of that meeting,” says Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria.