Mumbi daughters reclaiming Central from male control

CLOCKWISE: Anne Waiguru, Wangui Ngirici, Sabina Chege, Faith Gitau, Susan Kihika and Catherine Waruguru. [File, Standard]

When straight-shooting Kandara MP Alice Wahome twice took on President Uhuru Kenyatta this week, she was daring what no other Central leader has done in recent past - a frontal attack on their tribal chieftain.

In uncharacteristic diatribe, the MP described the man at whose behest she zealously guarded the 2017 presidential poll as “the biggest existential threat to Kenya’s declining economy, democracy, freedom of speech and political association.”