Plot to collect signatures to recall MP Ngunjiri hatched – Weekly Citizen

After Uhuru Kenyatta warned Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri against insulting him, plans to collect signatures from voters to recall him have been hatched to teach him a lasting political lesson.

Nakuru county governor Lee Kinyanjui is to co-ordinate the process with full blessings of powerful forces surrounding Uhuru. Ngunjiri is being investigated in suspect car dealing, giving bouncing cheques, misuse of NG – CDF and extortion. Already, to block pro-Ruto BBI rally at Afraha Stadium, the county government has booked all public places.

The MP is said to have in 1990s received money from Uhuru to pay fees to his child abroad but gave a bouncing cheque. Uhuru efforts to get back his dues has fallen on deaf ears hence the current bad blood between the two. In Jubilee, aware Uhuru knows his dirty past; Ngunjiri leans towards deputy president William Ruto’s side for consolation.

Addressing the press on Wednesday January 29, Ngunjiri accused Uhuru of disrespecting him by staging a rally near his homestead to castigate him in presence of close family members including children.

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“A whole president, surely, he was coming here to incite people of Bahati, coming telling people kimundu giki (this person), I am Kimani Ngunjiri and he knows my name…coming all the way to my gate, my gate of home, where my wife and children are,” said the MP.

A bitter Uhuru warned Ngunjiri against insulting him saying he will not entertain warmongers to distracting him from uniting Kenyans. In response, Ngunjiri claimed the president did not have any agenda in Nakuru rather than attacking and threatening him at the expense of myriad of issues affecting Kenyans.

“He did not come to open any projects. He just came all the way to attack and undermine me. I was shocked by the words he used before my family,” he claimed.

Uhuru asked Bahati constituents to pass the message to Ngunjiri and advise him accordingly. “Please warn your MP if you haven’t sent him to abuse me on TV… a country is not developed by verbal abuse. No one should sell fear to you before elections because Kenya is there for us all. I won’t stop uniting all Kenyans,” said the charged president.

While in Nakuru during the opening of a Sh5.8 billion cement factory in Salgaa, Uhuru said he will not be intimidated by threats from the lawmaker and urged his constituents to advise him accordingly.

Ngunjiri has on several occasions dared Uhuru to resign over what he alleged was sheer incompetence. In November 2019, the outspoken MP challenged Uhuru to dissolve the government for failing to provide leadership.

Ngunjiri was recently ordered to return his firearms by the Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai, with police investigations linking him to carjacking and misuse of firearms.