Kiharu Member of Parliament Ndindi Nyoro has expressed concerns over negative criticism of the meeting held by President Uhuru Kenyatta and Mount Kenya leaders at the Sagana State Lodge in Nyeri last week.
During an interview with Citizen TV, Nyoro claimed that communities such as those who practice pastoralism had been holding meetings yet no one had questioned the same, unlike Mount Kenya's case.
"Why do people become so restless when we meet?" Wondered Ndindi Nyoro.
The vocal legislator further argued that the Sagana meeting was purely for people who speak his dialect and the issues deliberated concerned the culture of the region.
"That meeting was a meeting for people who speak my language. That is why even the language we used was our language because largely it was a cultural meeting," he said.
He insisted that such kind of groupings were common amongst Kenyan ethnic communities, citing an example of the annual Turkana cultural festival meetings, where leaders from Turkana county meet to address issues pertaining to their culture.
Furthermore, he asserted that the leaders from Mt.Kenya region had been lobbying for the meeting in the past because they felt there were developmental and cultural problems facing region which needed solutions from the national government.
The deputy president William Ruto's close ally further opined that other regions and communities were free to convene a meeting and invite the president in order to petition him to help them address their particular concerns.