By Charles Kinyua
Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has declared that his disgust for Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has evaporated after the second in command allegedly renounced his likening the nation to shareholding entity.
The abrasive City legislator said that he has never had anything personal with the ruling party’s Deputy Party Leader as the two have had minimal interactions and thus have had nothing to quarrel about.
Addressing mourners during the funeral of Joseph Mwangi Muiga (Dereva) who is the father of Embakasi Central MP Benjamin Gathiru Mejja Donk at Kangurwe village in Mukurweini constituency, Nyeri, the Senator urged leaders to shurn political differences in the service of citizens without discrimination.
“Those of us elected in urban areas are devoid of petty differences dogging our colleagues from mashinani whom we don’t envy at all,” he observed.
His Migori counterpart, Eddy Oketch urged the government to decentralise the affordable housing programme and have decent houses in the villages.
“There’s no reason why the government should not assist peasant villagers with say 60, 70 thousand shillings to upgrade their uninhabitable dwellings”, advised the ODM legislator.
His sentiments were echoed by Buuri MP Mugambi Rindikiri who said that all citizens deserved dignified habitations.
Mwingi Central legislator Gideon Mulyungi urged the Deputy President to bring the Kamba to the GEMA fold where they rightly belonged since time immemorial.
“Your excellency, as you know Gikuyu had nine daughters and no sons and it’s our sons that impregnated them. Na unajua sisi tunatoa double, double” proclaimed the lawmaker amid a prolonged laughter from the mourners.
Nyeri senator Wahome Wamatinga called on the DP not to relent on war against killer brews while while Mathira legislator Eric Wamumbi vowed to plead with the court to ask the brewers who have taken him to court to partake of their products to prove that they are harmless.
Among other notable mourners were Jubilee acting party leader Sabina Wanjiru Chege, her wing’s Secretary General Kanini Kega, Nandi Hills MP Bernad Kitur. Maragwa’s Mary Wamaua Kingara of Ruiru, Joseph Kiptor, Emgwen and over two dozen MCAs from Nairobi and Nyeri counties.
Mt Kenya Times