MP joins battle to occupy Nyahururu houses – Weekly Citizen

Tension is high after Laikipia women representative Catherine Waruguru issued a notice to Nyandarua county civil servants to vacate Nyahururu town houses in favour of their Laikipia counterparts.

Calling it a final notice to the workers housed in Nyahururu, Waruguru said their eviction to Nyandarua county was long overdue and they ought to have left the houses too.

“It is a high time we consolidated all our properties back to Laikipia that is our only business. We cannot have our officers, the subcounty heads of departments without houses yet officers serving in Nyandarua are comfortably housed here,” noted Waruguru.

Waruguru

The MP is being bankrolled by some senior administrators in Nyahururu subcounty to push their Nyandarua North counterparts out of the posh offices and houses. She has accused the director for housing of engaging in insubordination by allowing the officers to continue staying in Nyahururu.

In what sounded like renewing fresh wars against the already troubled civil servants, Waruguru added: “The old Nyahururu county council houses are not adequate to accommodate the ballooning workforce in Nyahururu.”

Nyandarua county director for housing under the ministry of housing has been managing about 65 housing units in Nyahururu for civil servants with a majority being occupied by the Nyandarua county heads of departments.

The houses are managed by the ministry and get a pay cut to cater for the house rent. Officers serving Nyandarua North subcounty have been vacating the former Nyandarua county headquarters in Nyahururu town for Ndaragwa township, with the Critical Infrastructure Police Unit and The Treasury being the only one lagging behind for lack of a strong room, safes and an armoury at the new offices