'Faya si faya': All fired up as roadblocks mounted to screen voters in Mbeere

Mbeere North Constituency returning officer John Kinyua checks a pallet at the Siakago secondary school on Wednesday. [Jane Mugambi, Standard]

By the time you read this, various politicians will have been installed as MPs, Senators or MCAs in the various by-elections that were conducted in different parts of the country yesterday. One region that has captured the nation's attention is Mbeere North-I had no idea it had been divided, and who was its previous MP-which says a lot about my interest in local politics.

That was then. My interest has been more than piqued in recent weeks, as our two Deputy Presidents-Kithure Kindiki aka Soprano and his predecessor Rigathi Gachagua aka Riggy G-who insists he's the still the DP, despite his ouster last year, sparred.