Kirinyaga Members of County Assembly on Sunday, September 22 reported their Governor, Anne Waiguru to President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Reports by K24 indicated that they appealed to Uhuru to intervene after they accused Waiguru of refusing to surrender a title deed for 100-acre land for a research project.
‘’We are also calling on Uhuru to intervene and order the governor to issue the title deed so that the project can kick off as planned,” Fredrick Njomo an MCA appealed.
Waiguru's predecessor Joseph Ndathi had set aside the land on which the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) planned to put up a multi-billion project.
Two of Waiguru's ward representatives also gave the governor two week’s ultimatum to surrender the title deed for the 100-acre land.
The ultimatum was issued after last week’s meeting with the Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i, who also urged the governor to surrender the title deed to Kemri.
Kemri had planned to put up a Ksh12 billion ultramodern centre with a university dedicated to health research, a teaching and referral hospital, manufacturing plant and specialised laboratories.
The centre is also set to host a botanical garden, an administrative office, a police post, staff houses, and recreational facilities.
Wamumu MCA John Baptiste Kanga and his Muthithi counterpart Njomo, while Speaking to addressing the press disclosed their worry the project would stall if theWaiguru failed to release the document.
Kanga also affirmed Kirinyaga County leadership together with CS Matiang’i had unanimously agreed to support the project.
“The project is donor-funded and they have made it clear that if they fail to secure the title deed, they will pull out and take the project somewhere else,’’ stated a disturbed Kanga
The leaders who claimed they would not allow the project to fail also threatened to camp outside the governor’s office in Kutus town until she surrenders the title deed.
