Shock as New Kiambaa MP Kawanjiku Struggles to Speak English in Parlemiant

Kiambaa MP John Njuguna Wanjiku aka Kawanjiku had a hard time trying to address his colleagues in his maiden speech in Parliament.

Kawanjiku struggled to speak in English, leaving Members of Parliament in utter shock.

With a heavy Kikuyu accent, the lawmaker could not even make a complete sentence in the Queen’s language.

“I was given an opportunity to market myself, sell my ideas, some of them being ensuling (ensuring) that we will ensure that we give bursaly (bursary) to the people of Kiambaa in transparency (transparent) manner that has never happened before.

“Ensuling (ensuring) that we are going to increase and ensure that we, we, we ensure that we are, we ensure that we, we model and we…” he said.

The clip of the new MP sweating to address the National Assembly in English has attracted mixed reactions among Kenyans.

Some claimed that the Kiambaa people will pay heavily for electing an individual because he belonged to a popular political party.

Kawanjiku won the Kiambaa seat in a hotly contested by-election in July this year under Deputy President William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA).

His was competitor was Kariri Njama of Jubilee Party.

Despite Njama working closely with the locals for years in community projects, he was thrown under the bus to “punish President Uhuru Kenyatta for abandoning his deputy”.

Two weeks ago, National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi called out the parliamentarian for always being absent during sessions.

It took weeks for the House to approve Kiambaa National Government Constituency Development Fund’s (NG-CDF) nominees because Kawanjiku would not be present to second the names.

“The new MP has very bad manners and needs to be guided. He should be told that laws are made here and not in the village,” Muturi said.