Barely a week after Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana threatened to ditch Wiper, a section of clerics has poked holes into Kalonzo Musyoka’s recent meeting with Ukambani leaders dubbed “Koma declaration".
Led by Archbishop Arthur Kitonga, the President of Association of Evangelicals in Eastern Africa, the clergy said the leaders failed to address issues affecting the common "mwananchi" and instead concentrated on politics.
They said the politicians and professionals who attended the meeting did not have the needs of the people of Ukambani at heart.
“The meeting was only for political interests. There were no concerns on development and that is its undoing,” Kitonga said.
Kitonga said the leaders are thinking about 2022 succession politics while the local residents are being swept away by floods and their properties destroyed.
They addressed the press in Machakos town on Thursday.
Kitonga said Ukambani locals have continued suffering from hunger and abject poverty while their leaders wine and dine.
“Our people are being swept by floods and as a result people need help for food and other things. How can we ask the State to step in when our leaders are pushing conflicting interests?” posed Kitonga.