Gachagua reconciles Kiambu Governor with MCAs

The Star Kenya

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Monday brokered a deal between Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi and Members of the County Assembly, who have been threatening to impeach him.

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00:19 We'd want a situation where you are working together with the governor

00:22 so that you're also relevant on the ground.

00:25 Because all politics is local.

00:29 And politics is presence.

00:34 I would want a situation where you and the governor

00:38 work together when you go to inspect development,

00:41 when you go to launch development,

00:44 so that the governor can take credit and you can take credit as well.

00:48 [applause]

00:50 And that situation works out very well when people are united.

00:54 So that is a piece I'm trying to ask you today.

00:59 To please agree that first we are not here to fight,

01:03 we are here to look for a solution.

01:05 So if you came, you are here to come for that,

01:08 please stop that one. It's unnecessary.

01:11 Let's be proactive and let's offer solutions.

01:14 Let's see where the problem is and offer what? A solution.

01:18 We cannot unite the whole country

01:21 if we are not united from our base.

01:24 And you know I'm on record asking those

01:28 who did not support the president in the last election

01:31 to come and work with us.

01:34 It cannot be that I'm asking those who are not with us

01:37 to come and work with us when those of us

01:40 who we were together, we are fighting.

01:43 It doesn't make sense.

01:45 I don't think even anybody would want to join a house

01:48 that is fighting, that looks divided.

01:51 Our bursaries moving forward will be disseminated

01:54 at the world level.

01:57 And disseminated at the world level,

02:00 your excellency, meaning that

02:03 the member of county assembly has the freedom

02:06 together with the committee to go

02:09 identify the beneficiaries because they are the ones on ground.

02:12 Once they have identified the beneficiaries,

02:15 they can go ahead then and allocate

02:18 the bursaries together with the

02:21 committees. And then the member

02:24 of the county

02:27 assembly will arrange

02:30 in consultation with us at the time

02:33 when they are ready to issue the bursary.

02:36 And when the bursaries are ready to be issued, the only thing they need to do

02:39 as they issue the bursary is invite the governor.

02:42 When the issue comes, we just pay a visit to them,

02:45 say fine, you are giving the bursaries,

02:48 we greet the people, they go ahead to issue the bursaries,

02:51 your excellency. We have no problem with that issue, the bursaries.

02:54 So that, your excellency, is our commitment.

02:58 Thank you.

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