Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru decamps to UDA after complaining of a witchhunt from Harambee House Deepstate.
Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has officially decamped from Jubilee Party to DP Ruto’s UDA Party. The governor has been complaining of a witchhunt from Harambee House deepstate.
The governor on her tour of Kirinyaga, she asks county residents on which party she should run on in 2022. The residents reply UDA.
The governor says her problems popped the day she denounced BBI. Recently Governor Anne Waiguru led a group of Mt Kenya leaders in backtracking on their earlier endorsement of Orange Democratic Movement leader, Raila Odinga’s bid for the presidency and urged supporters of BBI to move on.
After that presser, the EACC raided her homes and offices on corruption charges. EACC accused the first-term governor of making an irregular payment amounting to Ksh52 million. She, however, denied the claims.
The Governor later posted on her Facebook account about the foul play from some quarters in Government who are planning her removal as county head in 2022.
“Last time I said … ‘on BBI let me keep quiet a bit…’ immediately, EACC raided my office… Recently I said am ‘… introspecting on the political way forward…’ and again, immediately I get EACC summons, complete with all the subtle threatening inflexibilities… and media alerts on an alleged payment of 52m,” Waiguru stated.
She added that the claims made by EACC about the payments have not even been done.
“The alleged payment was allocated by County Assembly – for a pending bill that was acquired in 2010, for subdivision, allocation and cadastral mapping of over 7000 acres of South Ngariama Settlement Scheme and which EACC knows has not even been paid,” Waiguru noted.
Waiguru is facing stiff competition from the Kirinyaga Women Rep who recently got an endorsement from Dr. Karanja Kibicho Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Internal Security and Coordination.
