Thika Town MP Eng. Patrick Wainaina. [Photo|Facebook]Thika Town MP Patrick Wainaina has urged fellow Mt Kenya Region politicians to prioritize working for the people instead of endless politicking.Speaking after launching the constituency self-help groups’ capacity building programme at the Thika Community Hall on Monday, Wainaina said Mt Kenya leaders were spending way too much time scolding each other and discussing the 2022 alignments instead of working for the electorates who got them into power.“We are just recovering from a gruesome political quagmire that almost brought this country to its knees. It is wrong to keep the country in an endless campaign mood and that is why I am saying that this politicking must come to an end,” said Wainaina.He also trashed the talk on who will be President Uhuru Kenyatta's successor as regional kingpin saying it was ill-timed and premature.The MP who trounced the Jubilee candidate, former MP Alice Nganga, to be elected on an independent ticket also appealed to his colleagues to give President Kenyatta some space to reconstitute his government and roll out his agenda for his final term in office.“As a country, we have lost a lot of time and we can’t manage to waste another minute through the same. Yes, we may have our political differences but we also have individual and collective dreams of prosperity for our futures and our country," Wainaina is quoted by Thika Today as saying..During the workshop organised by the Jungle Foundation Uwezo Team (Economic Empowerment) in conjunction with Thika West Social Development Officer Madam Constance Ngoa, participants were taught how to run their entities professionally for economic empowerment of both individual members and as a group.The forum which attracted about 200 group leaders and interested stakeholders from Township Ward, aimed to promote the full involvement of the youth, women, persons living with disabilities and small-scale traders in every aspect of socio-economic growth and development in Thika Town Constituency. The MP promised to initiate training on public procurement for all the groups within the constituency to enable them to take full advantage of the government procurement opportunities.
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