President Uhuru Kenyatta rewarded one of the rivals of Kandara MP Alice Wahome, with a plum state job.
The head of state, through the Kenya Gazette Volume CXXII - No. 9, on Friday, January 17, he reappointed Joshua Toro as chairperson of the National Irrigation Authority Board.
Toro, is a former Kandara MP, former Assistant Minister for then Public Works and Housing Ministry and is an engineer by profession.
"In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 9 (1) (a) of the Irrigation Act, I, Uhuru Kenyatta, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces, appoint Joshua Toro to be the chairperson of the National Irrigation Authority Board.
"Toro will serve for a period of three years, with effect from January 9, 2020," the Kenya Gazette read.
Kenyatta had appointed Toro to the same post in 2019 and reaffirmed his position on a three-year contract with the 2020 gazette notice.
Toro lost to Alice Wahome in the 2017 General Election, sparking a bitter rivalry between the two.
On Wednesday, January 15, Alice Wahome claimed that Toro was among the leaders who had planned to disrupt her meeting in Kandara, Murang'a County.
“I have information that Nominated MP Maina Kamanda, Murang’a Woman Representative Sabina Chege, former MP Joshua Toro and a number of MCAs hatched the whole plan to disrupt today’s meeting.
"I have my own sources and I already have a list of more than 50 people who have been meeting in a hotel in Murang’a County, planning on how to bring me down," Wahome lamented, as police arrested 22 university students in relation to the incident.
