Limuru MP Peter Mwathi now wants president Uhuru Kenyatta to personally intervene and ensure that Kitui governor Charity Ngilu compensates Limuru businessman whose truck was burnt down three weeks ago.
Speaking to residents in Limuru on Tuesday, Mwathi said it is only fair that Ngilu compensates the owner.
He claimed that police are allegedly shielding governor Charity Ngilu over incitement allegations facing her.
“The governor has to take responsibility of what happened and compensate the owner of the lorry,” he said.
Mwathi said that the matter is getting out of hand, adding that it is only compensation that will settle the matter.
The Jubilee MP said that they have no problem with Ngilu’s ban on charcoal, adding that residents have not been ferrying charcoal form Kitui.
He said that charcoal dealers have been getting the commodity from Tana River and not Kitui County as governor Ngilu claims.
Mwathi said that locals will continue with peaceful demonstrations until when Ngilu will be arrested, arraigned in court and charged with incitement.
He warned the police against attempts to protect the governor saying that law breakers should be treated equally.
On Monday, Ngilu was grilled by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) over incitement to violence allegations.
The governor through his lead lawyer Kalonzo Musyoka denied inciting locals to violence.Ngilu told NCIC that the charcoal ban policy was passed in 2014, adding its enforcement is unstoppable.
Ngilu denied claims that she is using the ban to brew tribal conflict among neighboring communities.
A section of Kiambu leaders are accusing Ngilu of inciting youth s to burn a lorry at Kanyororo, three weeks ago.
On Monday, angry protesters barricaded sections of the Nakuru-Nairobi highway especially in Limuru and Rironi over the charcoal saga.
The demonstrators deflated vehicles’ tires’ paralyzing transport along the busy highway for hours.
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