High stakes in Waiguru, Kibicho clash

A Level Five hospital, a university, a medical supplies factory and a medical research centre to be put up at Wamumu area in Mwea are what are at stake in the feud pitting embattled Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru against powerful Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho.

Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) had scheduled to start the project valued at Sh15 billion in January 2016, but it has delayed owing to dispute that has made Kirinyaga decline to release 100 acres of land for the project. It is about a commitment by the Kemri that at least 30 per cent of the jobs must be given to people of Kirinyaga. That is the ground that Waiguru stands.