President Uhuru Kenyatta is said to have played a key role in the Monday meeting that saw Kiambu governor Ferdinand Waititu, his deputy James Nyoro and Women Representative Gathoni Wa Muchomba reconcile.
According to confidential sources, President Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto demanded the Monday meeting that saw the Kiambu leaders unite and pledge to work together.
Waititu, Nyoro, and Wa Muchomba were not seeing eye to eye prior to the meeting and it took the intervention of the two top leaders and Kiambu senator Kimani Wamatangi to call for a meeting that saw the rival leaders reconcile.
It is said that DP Ruto had asked Wamatangi to convene the Monday meeting when he launched development projects in Kikuyu Town on Friday last week.
The DP speaking in Kikuyu Town had warned Waititu, Nyoro and other Kiambu politicians against engaging in ugly wrangles.
The deputy president said that the wrangles pitting the leaders were painting Kiambu negatively.
“You must behave and stop these ugly things or I come here with a whip,” the DP was quoted telling Kiambu leaders.
On Monday at a meeting in a local hotel in Nairobi, Waititu, Nyoro, Wa Muchomba and other politicians agreed to work together.
The politicians vowed to put their differences aside for the sake of development agenda.
Speaking at the meeting, senator Wamatangi said that it is for the interest of Kenyans if elected leaders work together.
The meeting attended by all Kiambu elected leaders also pledged to support President Uhuru Kenyatta’s development agenda as he serves his final term office.
Governor Waititu had publicly fallen out with his deputy.
Nyoro had accused Waititu of running the county as his personal affair.
He claimed that the governor was a one man’s show and had sidelined him (Nyoro) and the entire executive in running county affairs.
The deputy governor had also claimed that working under Waititu had become torturers for him.
The truce between the Kiambu politicians is a sigh of relief for locals who are demanding service delivery from their government.