Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri lashed back at President Uhuru Kenyatta, after the head of state pitched camp at the legislator's doorstep in Nakuru County on Tuesday, January 28, and held a rally with the area residents, lamenting over how Ngunjiri constantly abused him.
Ngunjiri, a close ally to Deputy President William Ruto, disclosed that the president disrespected him despite the MP having staunchly supported Kenyatta before the handshake.
Speaking to Citizen TV on Wednesday morning, January 29, the MP disclosed that he was even operated on in the US out of the tasks and errands he ran for Kenyatta.
"We are from the same party. I campaigned for him and I went to surgery in America where my leg was operated on just for the work he asked me to do. But I was shocked that he stopped at my gate where my wife, children and close people were and claimed that I abused him. He, however, never stated with which words I abused him.
"For me, I know all I do is to differ with his opinions when he talks about maize and milk. I am just a leader like him We had six ballot papers when we were being voted. We were not voted so that he can lead and us we don't talk? We have to talk about the problems of our people. I thought he was coming to speak about the roads he promised when he asked for votes. He has not talked about that. I also thought he would talk about the four dams he promised in 2013," Ngunjiri argued.
He also alleged that he was the one who mobilised his constituents to receive Kenyatta upon arrival but was shocked at the number of policemen who accompanied him.
"I was shocked when I saw more than 1000 askaris in Bahati. Was there any problem? Kenyans are killed and police are camping in Bahati. I mobilised people and told them to cheer him. But he came purposely being led by Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui, to call me Kimundu (a small person), the word I was using to refer to Raila Odinga when the two were rivals. When he saw that people were quiet, he asked them to raise their hands. By that, he thought he had achieved but that was not the way it was," Ngunjiri opined.
In a video seen by Kenyans.co.ke, rather talk down the vocal MP, Kenyatta initiated a vivid conversation with the legislator's constituents after making a stopover in the area.
"Today I decided to come and listen to what you are saying because if you listen to him on TV (Kimani Ngunjiri) and the radio, you will think the constituency is burning. Have I made a mistake?" Kenyatta wondered as the constituents distanced themselves from their MP's remarks.
The Jubilee Party leader then requested the constituents to urge their MP, a close ally of Deputy President William Ruto, to focus on development rather than insults.
"Tell him to leave me alone and do the work he is supposed to do, which you who gave him. I'm also doing the work that you gave me.
"Our mandate is to do what we are supposed to do and I am very pleased by what the MCA (an MCA who addressed the crowd before Kenyatta) has said because he knows his work," the president asserted.
Earlier on, Kenyatta came out strongly in support of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) as he declared that his mission to unite the country was unstoppable.
Speaking in Salgaa, Nakuru County, where he launched a new cement factory owned by the Devki Group, Uhuru hit out at critics as he reiterated that national unity was necessary for Kenya's development.
On Monday, January 20, Kimani Ngunjiri alleged that Deputy President William Ruto's convoy had been withdrawn, while also castigating the Building bridges Initiative (BBI).
"Check the deputy president, he is going with his own cars, old cars. His convoy has been taken away so that people fighting for the BBI report can use them.
"People are dying, teachers are being killed aimlessly, nobody is addressing that. The only issue that is there now is BBI and it is dividing Kenyans more than it is uniting them," Ngunjiri argued.
On Wednesday, January 15, he also claimed that Kenyatta held a top-secret meeting with leaders and elders from the Kikuyu community at his Gicheha Farm in Nakuru on the night of Tuesday, January 14.
In the meeting, the president reportedly dished out Ksh4 million, with each leader pocketing Ksh 10,000, according to the MP.
"Uhuru held a meeting with 400 Kikuyu leaders. I hear he told them that he is working to create a position for them in government through the BBI, and each of the leaders left there with Ksh10,000," Ngunjiri claimed.
Video: Citizen TV/NTV
