Details of Senator Maina secret Nyeri golf talks emerge – Weekly Citizen

A thick cloud has engulfed Nyeri county political landscape following a marathon meeting between Senator Ephraim Maina, the besieged deputy governor Wanjiru Karugu and Kanu activist Cathy Irungu at the Nyeri Golf Club. Impeccable inside sources intimated that three items on the agenda of the meeting included rebranding Kanu in Mt Kenya region and giving the dilapidated Kanu branch office a multimillion facelift with a view to implement party headquarters’ proposal to uplift the status of the office to serve as Mt Kenya region headquarters of the independence party as well as injecting new blood in the leadership of the political outfit ahead of 2022 transitional polls.

Wanjiru Karugu

Sources further said the meeting proposed on the methods to form a team that would be entrusted in constituting lineups on five electoral seats in the devolved unit ahead of the forthcoming general elections. It is noteworthy that Maina has already declared interest to contest the Nyeri county gubernatorial seat come the 2022 polls. Others who have done so include Wamahiu wa Kiongo, Steve Gachie who is also the deputy CEO of Mater Hospital in the city’s Mariakani area, Njoroge Wainaina, Mary Kabiru, William Wahome, while the second governor of Nyeri county Samuel Wamathai is under pressure from his supporters to declare interest for the seat ahead of the forthcoming elections but he has remained non-committal on the issue.

Ephraim Maina

Maina differed with Governor Mutahi Kahiga over numerous outstanding political issues despite the fact that he mentored the governor into active politics even getting moral and material support from him. The secret Nyeri Golf Club meeting between the trio, took place barely two months after Kanu chairman Gideon Moi hosted 2000 delegates from Mt Kenya region at his Kabarak home in Nakuru county. The delegation was coordinated by Maina, Nyeri deputy governor Wanjiru Karugu, Kanu activist Cathy Irungu, Kanu officials Njung’e Mukirai and Kennedy Wainaina from Kiambu and Murang’a respectively. Before the main meeting kicked off at the lawns of the Kabarak home, Nick Salat, John Muya from Nyeri and the host Gideon held a brief closed-door meeting over a cup of tea while other delegates were served with tea on the gardens.

Cathy Irungu

Drama ensued at Kabarak when the chance came for Nyeri delegates respectively, which of course the protocol demanded county Kanu chairman Karanja wa Njeru to address the gathering, but the master of ceremony Mukirai to Nyeri delegates consternation asked Muya to come forward and make his speech thus bypassing wa Njeru but his supporters shouted Mukirai down in deep anger saying tumekataa (we reject that) but in fear of the incident turning chaotic, party secretary-general secretary Salat consulted Gideon and the former asked wa Njeru to take the podium. It has been authoritatively established that bad blood between Kahiga and his second in command Karugu emerged long before the latter plunged into Kanu activism over alleged insubordination and displaying gross defiance.