Inside Governor Ngilu wars with MCAs – Weekly Citizen

Political battles pitting Kitui governor Charity Ngilu and emboldened county MCAs have renewed her supremacy fight with Kalonzo Musyoka. Ngilu who won her seat on a Narc ticket in 2107 after ironing out her differences with Kalonzo is facing onslaught from MCAs majority elected on Wiper ticket over what they term as her poor development record.

Governor Ngilu

Wiper party controls the assembly and has the assembly speaker George Ndotto on their side. Ndotto is a perennial rival of Ngilu since the advent of multiparty politics when he lost the Kitui Central parliamentary seat to Ngilu. Ngilu then won the seat on a DP ticket and went ahead to bury Ndotto politically until the 2013 elections when Ndotto won the speakers seat courtesy of his closeness to Kalonzo since their days in Kanu. Ngilu and Ndotto have opened a new warfront with Ngilu accusing the speaker of working towards bringing her down politically by using the MCAs to block her budget.
Ngilu’s budget had faced resistance from the Wiper MCAs forcing Ngilu to plead hard with them and even go further to use a section of those allied to her to allegedly facilitate bribes. The governor who was out of the country for medical checkup had in the UK rushed home to salvage her budget. The MCAs accuse the governor for overseeing looting of public funds by a cabal of relatives and cronies who work closely with her.
The MCAs point to a case where the county boss makes sure all tenders are awarded to her relatives without undergoing the required procurement procedures and later facilitates payments even before works are complete. The MCAs cite instances were big tenders are awarded to contractors majority from Makueni county where she was born and sidelines deserving people from Kitui county. In her schemes of operations the county boss is said to have sidelined every leader from the county including her deputy Wathe Nzau who has been subdued into silence. The governor who rarely holds cabinet meetings at one time even threatened impeachment of her deputy after they fell out but her bid was thwarted by the MCAs