Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has hit back at his Saboti counterpart, Caleb Amisi, who accused him of flexing with roads built by the national government, purporting that they were his own work.
Speaking on Wednesday, two days after Amisi made the allegations, Babu questioned why the national government would only be constructing roads in his constituency and not in any other, like Amisi's Saboti.
Acknowledging that he was blindsided by the remarks, as he considered MP Amisi one of his close friends, Babu accused him of being bitter due to the success of Embakasi East.
"I also thought that Caleb Amisi was my friend, but anyway, it is another bitter soul detected," Babu slighted Amisi.
"I want to tell you clearly that if the national government were doing roads in Embakasi East as Caleb Amisi is claiming, how come the same government is not doing roads in his constituency or in other constituencies, for that matter? Any road and any project that the national government does, they always post."
As such, he highlighted that none of the development projects posted by the national government were roads constructed in his constituency.
He further mused on why a national government whose policies he often opposed would opt to bring developments in his constituency.
To MP Amisi, he advised him to be like him and continue working for the interests of his constituents, not to criticise him so as to be "better instead of being bitter".
While appearing at the Obinna TV show on Monday, October 27, Amisi claimed that the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) was in charge of all road developments in Nairobi County.
He claimed that the only reason why it was Embakasi East that was being highlighted was that Babu was taking the photos while other Nairobi MPs were not.
"That is not Babu's work. It is the work of KURA that covers the whole of Nairobi. What Babu does is just come and take the photo and post, but others are being done, and the MPs are not taking the photos," Amisi alleged.
He further noted that, even in his constituency, Saboti, there is currently a road from Shanti to Matisi being constructed, but he would never post about it or brag about it, saying that that would be dishonest.
Notably, the two are members of an emerging political movement, Kenya Moja, which recently changed to Kenya Mpya and consists of other politicians like Edwin Sifuna and Gathoni Wamuchomba.
