Fresh row over elders’ role in Mt Kenya

Kikuyu Council of Elders at Kabiru-ini ground in Nyeri on June 7. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

A weekend meeting of Kikuyu Council of Elders that called for cessation of 2022 politics has put a spotlight on the fading role of the revered decision making organ.

The meeting attended by elders from the Gikuyu counties of Kiambu, Nyeri, Murang’a, Kirinyaga and Nyandarua as well as diaspora counties with significant votes from the ‘House of Mumbi’ including Laikipia, Nyandarua, Nairobi and Lamu, is said to have turned heads because of what was not said rather than what was said.