Runyenjes MP Cecily Mbarire: Arrest hate leaflets authors now

Runyenjes MP Cecily Mbarire has asked the Government to bring to book people spreading hate leaflets in Embu County.

Leaflets pitting communities against each other have been scattered in Embu at least three times, the latest on Thursday, since Governor Martin Wambora’s impeachment.

Mbarire urged residents to continue co-existing and shun ethnic differences.

“We will never have another county apart from Embu. We need not fight but should remain as one people,” she said. Thursday’s unsigned leaflets suggested that Governor Wambora would lose the appeal he has filed at Court of Appeal seeking to quash his impeachment.

The authors claimed Wambora, who hails from the Embu community, would leave office this year and his Deputy Dorothy Nditi would succeed him until 2022. The leaflets further suggested that Speaker Kariuki Mate would then assume office until 2030.

Nditi and Mate are from the Mbeere community. The leaflets seemed to be mocking the Embu community, suggesting that they would never regain the governor’s seat and that the Mbeere would dominate all county seats for a century. The authors also suggested that the county headquarters would be relocated to Siakago town.

The leaflets were circulated at a time when Wambora has launched an appeal against a High Court ruling that that endorsed his impeachment two weeks ago.

The Embu County security committee held a crisis meeting over the leaflets. Acting County Commissioner John Chelimo urged residents to ignore the leaflets, saying they were only meant to divide them.