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No let up in Ngilu’s fall-out with MCAs and county senator

Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu faces off with Senator Enoch Wambua at the County Assembly Speaker’s office in 2018. [Philip Muasya, Standard]

The standoff in Kitui County pitting Governor Charity Ngilu and the County Assembly seems to have snowballed into a full blown war, sucking in other leaders and turning into an endless blame game.

When she assumed office as the second Kitui governor, Ngilu enjoyed a small lull before things went awry, with MCAs being her main thorn in the flesh. When they are not accusing her of failure to account for development projects and marginalisation of regions, the ward representatives are either shooting down the executive’s budgets or rejecting her appointees.

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