Kiambu locked out over Uhuru protest

Nominated MP Maina Kamanda, Nyeri town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu and Kangema MP Muturi Kigano with other Jubilee leaders at Hallelujah church in Karuri banana, Kiambu County. [David Gichuru/Standard]

Kiambu County’s elected leaders may face severe consequences for defying President Uhuru Kenyatta’s call to stop early politics, in what the rest of the region sees as disrespect and an external-funded strategy to divert the region’s attention from development matters.

Leaders say they read malice in the defiance against the president, who doubles as the current political supremo for the region, undermining his reputation nationally. They say the dissidents are being used in a plot to weaken Uhuru’s home-base political influence ahead of 2022 elections.