By MKT Reporter
A Mathira parliamentary aspirants was ejected from the home of DCP party leader Rigathi Gachagua’s Wamunyoro home in Nyeri where aspirants were scheduled to meet.
Solomon Maina Muriithi who has had an extensive campaign in the constituency has been at pains shrugging the tag of being a UDA mole.
Impeccable sources at the party headquarters told the Mt Kenya Times that Maina paid his subscription fees on Tuesday last week after he allegedly hoodwinked some officials that he had acquired the party leaders nod after parting with KSh2m and another KSh300k to some undisclosed officials.
After the payment, he sent his personal assistant, John Kariru to the party’s Nyeri office for registration to the aspirants list.
Maina is said to have greased the palm of the party’s county coordinator Wanyaga Gathaka over time to the tune of close to KSh1 million.
There has been hue and cry by aspirants over extortion running to hundreds of thousands of shillings for running the office.
Among those milked dry by the coordinator in whose premises the office is located are Peter Githinji Tropical, John Kariuki Choromaai, Edmund Kimaru, Anthony Gitonga among others.
Gachagua is reported to have been highly infuriated on learning of the allegations of him having solicited any funds from the aspirant and sought to know those that approved the registration of the adpirant whom he has not been in talking terms for quite some time.
Maina, the immediate former chairman of KTDA (MS), a job he got courtesy of Gachagua when he was in good books is reported to be a business associate of President William Ruto and Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro.
The trio hold majority shares in Sidian Bank where the president’s company holds 27.5%, Wizpro owned by Maina holds 24.5% with the legislator having close to seven percent.
Wizpro also holds the tender for maintain the Thika super highway among other government projects.
The Mathira seat has attracted at least six aspirants with Peter Githinji Tropical a confidant of Gachagua seemingly the front runner in the DCP nominations.
Others in the party include businessman Dominic Muraya, Kirimukuyu MCA Anthony Ndagita and Daniel Kiige.
Engineer Maina Gateru is so far the sole Jubilee aspirant from the constituency while the incumbent MP Eric Wamumbi is unchallenged for the UDA ticket.
Meanwhile, even before the wounds of a humiliating ejection could start healing, Maina found himself in the midst of a scuffle in a solemn ceremony in Magutu ward in the constituency.
Mourners had gathered at the home of the late Bishop Peter Waruteere at Kiangengi village for prayer and funeral arrangements.
Trouble started when Maina apparently orally stepped on the toes of area MP Eric Wamumbi who moved in to snatch the microphone from the beleaguered politician.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that Solomon may have lost valuables including cash as the fray got out of hand but the MP’s hawk eyed guards ensuring he was unharmed.
This comes in the wake of a worrying goons menace across the country including attacks in churches.
The abrasive Mathira legislator has on several occasions been associated with the vice together with the Murang’a Woman Rep Betty Maina who is his wife.
Mathira has had the unenviable tag of political violence for the past half century with most election cycles leaving some families grieving after losing their loved ones to political thuggery.
