Kenya's youngest member of the National Assembly has waged a war against Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha on claims that he defied President Uhuru Kenyatta.
According to a report carried by Daily Nation on Tuesday, November 5, Igembe South MP Paul Mwirigi, 25, accused the CS of defying Uhuru by constantly refusing to gazette Chuka University’s Igembe campus as the institution's constituent college.
Speaking before Ameru Professionals Association over the past weekend, Mwirigi claimed that Uhuru had, in his 2017 visit to the region, promised to gazette the campus.
However, Mwirigi claimed that his efforts to have the promise fulfilled constantly hit a dead end as the CS repeatedly told him he was not going to gazette the institution.
“When the President was here in August 2017, he gave a directive that the campus should be established as a constituent college of Chuka University.
"What happened? We need to be told whether the President was only campaigning. Our people voted for him in large numbers and they also need a reward because he promised them,” Mwirigi is quoted in The Standard.
All the leaders who were at the event seemed to agree with the leader stating that the gazettement would uplift the lives of the area residents.
They, as a result, called for speedy implementation of the president's directive.
They also sent Eastern Regional Commissioner Isaiah Nakoru to convey the same message to Uhuru to help them follow the gazettement through.
Chuka University Vice-Chancellor Erastus Njoka confirmed that the institution had met the requirements for gazettement after officials from the Commission for University Education visited it twice.
