Wednesday 05th March, 2025 10:56 AM|
Former Bahati MP Ngunjiri Kimani has responded to Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale following remarks that President William Ruto ought to now shift his improvement agenda from the Mt Kenya area to the western a part of Kenya.
Khalwale on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, whereas talking in Lugusi village in Malava constituency, Kakamega County, urged the president to think about shifting the event agenda to the Western area which he claims has been sidelined for nearly 60 years.
He additional argued that the event will probably be geared at opening the country economically.
His sentiments have nonetheless been dismissed by Ngunjiri, who contends that such utterances may set the nation on a vicious political cycle.
Dangerous path
The former MP registered his dismay with the feedback, which he held would thwart beneficial properties made in making the nation progress.
“I saw the Kakamega Senator talking before the President in dismay, saying that the president should now take money and development projects to Western and not to the mountain. Where was he when the people from the mountain were voting for the president? He was engaging in bullfighting,” he remarked.
“Some issues need to be approached and undertaken with caution. I’m seeing a very dangerous trend if you fight one group of people now and next perhaps, you get to the government. You leave the others fighting the government. The gimmick will be factions taking turns to fight the government when you feel you’re not part of it. We need to build this country and move forward with a view of uniting people.”
Khalwale’s remarks come barely a month after Webuye West MP Dan Wanyama urged President Ruto to shift focus on the Western Kenya region following the rising insurrection within the Mt Kenya area.
Speaking on Sunday, January 19, 2025, through the Interdenominational Prayers held at Cheptais Boys’ High School in Bungoma County, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) lawmaker said that the president ought to cease climbing the already slippery mountain and discover Mt Elgon within the western area, which he says is extra steady.
Wanyama argued that the latest merger of Musalia Mudavadi’s Amani National Congress (ANC) and Ruto’s UDA is a transfer that may train the bigger Mt. Kenya area a lesson over what he termed as continued entitlement.
According to Wanyama, locking the Western area block will assist President Ruto win re-election simply with out the help of Mt. Kenya.
The views are ostensibly birthed by Ruto’s latest journeys to the western area as he switched his political attraction offensive to the area following his fallout with Gachagua halfway in 2024.