Political wrangles in Kiambu County seem to intensify even after more than three years of political bickering and blame game.
The bone of contention has mostly been between Governor William Kabogo and some Member of Parliament.
Lately, Members of County Assembly (MCAs) have been blowing hot and cold and the relationship between most of them and the county boss has somewhat soured. It all started as a simple airing of grievances but it is fast becoming a cat and mouse game where the best player wins.
The allegations being levelled against governor may lead to court battles.
Things took a different turn 14 days ago and now Kabogo faces impeachment if MCAs were serious about an ultimatum they gave him. They had urged him to relocate the county headquarters from Thika to Kiambu town and also appear before the senate and answer audit queries.
Kabogo has maintained that he will not go to the senate but will relocate headquarters when the offices are completed.
A new turn of events has been witnessed as Ngewa Ward representative Karungo wa Thang’wa claims he will sue Kabogo over remarks he made in Limuru publicly that he is being given money to compel him to relocate the headquarters and also appear before the senate.
"I will go to court over defamatory remarks by the governor. He said I am being funded by someone over telling him to go to senate which is tarnishing my name. He must apologise to me publicly or substantiate his remarks as this is character assasination,” Thang’wa said.
In earlier instances, several MPs including Thika Town’s Alice Ng’ang’a, Kimani Ichungw’a (Kikuyu), Kigo Njenga (Gatundu North) and Mburu Kahangara from Lari have not been relating well with the governor. Some of them complain that their views are not sought for on critical issues about the county development.
Kabogo has had his good share of the tune has been responding well to the claims. Recently in Limuru Town while flagging off a fleet of garbage collection trucks, he confirmed he would be moving to the county headquarters in Kiambu. He said this was so that leaders like Kimani Ichung’wa could stop pestering him.
Also during a fund raiser in aid of a Seventh Day Adventist Church in Githurai, Kabogo publicly clashed with some local MPs in the presence of the Deputy President William Ruto over his failure to honour Senate summons. The leaders told Kabogo he had no choice but to avail himself before the Senate Committee on Finance to respond to queries being raised in the Auditor General’s report.
Ng’ang’a, on the other hand, came to the limelight after she stood firm on the utterances by Kabogo that women in leadership should first get married to have the skills necessary for leading the public.
The most worrying concern is that most leaders are from the same party The National Alliance (TNA) which makes up the ruling Jubilee Coalition.