Nyeri town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu has come out to clarify on allegations by area MCAs that he was using the outlawed Mungiki sect to instill fear into local politicians.
The MCAs also claimed the first-time legislator was also responsible for sending the youth that interrupted a meeting by the Agriculture CS Mwangi Kiunjuri on Saturday.
Murunguru ward Rep, Symon Muturi and Deputy speaker Samuel Kariuki, cited the Kiunjuri incident as an indicator of their predicament.
Wambugu, while speaking to Kenyans.co.ke, stated that the youth who interrupted the CS meeting were disgruntled, boda boda operators.
He went on to criticise the MCAs for labeling hardworking youth that voted for them as violent criminals.
“Since yesterday (Wednesday) there seems to be a concerted effort to introduce a narrative that young men from Nyeri town, especially the over 1,000 who are in the boda boda business, are Mungiki,” Wambugu noted.
Wambugu further explained that the youth were angered by the fact that some of the leaders in Saturday's event wanted to play politics with matters of development.
“The idea behind this narrative is to ‘revenge’ because when these same leaders tried to turn a development project event in Nyeri on Saturday into a political rally, they failed. But the fact is that the people who stopped these leaders from using a project to politic were not just young men alone,” he added.
The legislator claimed that the ward representatives were using propaganda as Kiunjuri’s event was graced by people of all genders and ages.
He further urged the police not to fall into the politician's trap of labeling residents of an area in a bad light.
“These leaders would now want to brand young men from Gatitu and the wider Nyeri Town, as Mungiki. They hope the police will start killing them as used to happen in the past. But times have changed and the police have refused to fall into this trap. Today criminals are apprehended as individuals,” the legislator continued.
The MP concluded by expressing shock that some elected leaders within Nyeri, and from within the wider Mt Kenya region would brand an entire generation in the community as criminals just to gain some political mileage.
