New party takes Meru politics by storm – Weekly Citizen

East Africa Legislative Assembly MP Mpuru Aburi has registered a new political outfit National Peoples Party Movement. He is the party leader. Its slogan is nopeu a Meru word meaning go away. The symbol of the party is a dove carrying miraa.
The party, Weekly Citizen, has established is being fronted to consolidate the Meru block vote in Uhuru succession game. It has established roots in Tigania, Igembe and Imenti areas.
The arrival of the party comes as spirited political jostling and fight between Aburi and the Meru county governor

Kiraitu

Kiraitu Murungi does not seem to come to an end soon. The latter’s effort to portray the county government of Meru and its leadership as incompetent, undemocratic, insensitive to the feelings of the electorate as well as being corrupt, has been met with brutality.
After the sustained tirade, the matter came to the fore during a burial. The man met with the governor at a burial in Nyambene.
The governor was to speak last during the burial ceremony. After all other leaders had spoken, he took the microphone to address the mourners but was generous to share his time with his now archrival Aburi who had arrived late.
That was where hell broke loose. Immediately he was given the microphone, the daredevil combative Eala legislator started his usual antics of charging the crowd against the governor with his ‘nopeu’ clarion call.
He went on to declare as he has lately been doing though not from close range, “that everywhere in Meru, the people are wailing due to lack of development by the county government, and massive misuse of resources”.
This irked the governor so much that although he held himself as Aburi went ballistic, he took enough time to respond to him with decorum. He was categorical that he has been in elective leadership for long and Aburi was not on his side in most of those years. Cs Peter Munya and mp Maoka Maore were present at the funeral.
He told him that even during the 2022 elections, he knows exactly what to do to keep up his legacy and flow afloat in Meru political game. This however, did not make things any better for him as Aburi had made the public poisoned on matters of the county government and its leadership under Kiraitu.
From that day, things have not been the same again. The two protagonists pulling in different sides, do not see-eye-to-eye.
It is whispered that the governor and his henchmen have had sleepless nights on how to put in control the already deplorable situation.
The Eala legislator who was one of the key pillars of Jubilee campaigns in Tigania region ended losing his seat of Tigania East to Gichunge Kabeabea who rode on the PNU ticket.
Aburi had campaigned alongside Kiraitu while Kabeabea and Munya pulled on one side against them. Aburi lost on grounds, he had betrayed his own brother Munya who comes from the same area to help Kiraitu win.Now, Aburi is fighting the man he groomed and is calculating his political moves.Munya has kept many guessing as to whether he will go for the seat in 2022. He has mended fences with Aburi. Another man to watch is MP Maoka Maore now popular known as Double M. His name is being mentioned in each and every corner in the county. He has come out to defend those baying for the blood of DCI George Kinoti.
According to Aburi, the county government, desperate to counter his spirited campaign against it has devised a strategy to portray him as being mentally unstable.
This caught the legislator offguard.
As he addressed the public, in a self recorded audio visual shared online, he has been trying to heal the effects of an oiled county propaganda machine that is said to have published thousands of online newspapers to depict Aburi as mentally unsound and attending medical services in Kenya, India and Israel.
The sponsored county newspapers went ahead to state that Aburi can no longer concentrate on his duties and has had to take a break from Arusha.
The story further pointed out that his alleged mental instability arose from an accident that he was involved in while in Uganda as he went around his duties. Though the authenticity of these speculations remains questionable, it is an issue that does not go down well with Aburi’s political style.
If the county government and their spindoctors are able to fix these allegations on him, the public is likely to disregard what already seems to be a self burning fire in the county government’s homestead, thus changing the political matrix come 2022.
It is in the public domain that a similar fight with Munya, then Meru county governor and also chairman of the Council of Governors, marked the end of him as the governor. Only time will tell which dimension this thrust for political supremacy between the two leaders in Meru will take.