Ngilu, Kiema launch
new Miambani Division  |
| Mr Kilonzo and Mrs Ngilu |
The Water and Irrigation Minister Charity Kaluki Ngilu has declared that she will vie for the 2012 Kenya ’s presidency through the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) political party.
As she made the declaration, the minister wondered whether the Vice President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka is the only person from the Kamba tribe in Kenya who can vie for the country’s presidency. “I am the one in the presidential race. Kalonzo is a coward and he can’t fight for presidency due to cowardice,” she said.
Why is he afraid of Raila, Uhuru and Ruto?,” Ngilu, who is the Kitui Central Member of Parliament asked. She said: “We don’t want Uhuru and Ruto to go The Hague . We want them to be in the presidential race. We will battle it out with them over the country’s presidency,” the minister said.
The minister further said that it is bad for a leader to despise the people by using the power given to him or her by the people. She was addressing about 3,000 people at the Miambani Chief’s Camp within her constituency when she and the local (Kitui District) DC Joshua K.Chepchieng and the Kitui East (Mutitu) MP Julius Kiema Kilonzo introduced to the residents the first District Officer for the Miambani Division, Mr. Ibrahim Kerrow.The new division has been curved by the government from the Kitui Central Division. Ngilu said that she had supplied her entire constituency with water and electricity among all other services. “That is because of the good leadership,” the minister said. Ngilu said that the Ukambani region could have perished if she was not given the Water Ministry by the Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Mutitu MP said that he and Ngilu had served their people effectively and efficiently. “A leader who does not serve his or her people should be cursed. He said that many of the working children from Ukambani region got employed by being assisted by Ngilu. “We want leaders who fight for the people,” Kiema said.
He assured the people of the Kitui County that he will do away with all the sufferings among them including the abject poverty if they elect him as their governor.
The MP petitioned the government to provide maximum security for the people of the Tseikuru District within the Kitui Country who are being attacked frequently by armed bandits.
The District Commissioner called upon the local parents to ensure that all their children who did the last year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) national examination will go to secondary schools by all means even if they can’t afford the school fees. “Don’t leave them to stay at home. You can get the school fees through fund-drives and leaders,” the DC said.
He announced that the Kitui District Roads Board had released some funds for the grading of the 36-kilometre Kitui-Museve-Miambani road. The DC said that the construction work of the road starts immediately. Chepchieng said that the Kenya’s new constitution recognises the citizens rights as he cautioned chiefs, police officers, teachers and civic leaders and all the other civil servants against the harassing the public. The DC told the chiefs and police officers that the times that the officers were embarrassing members of the public were no gone. “Today there is no tolerance of the errant officers. That is the truth of the matter. Do understand that because it is the truth of the matter. The constitution cuts like a saw,” the DC said.
Ngilu, Kiema and the DC had earlier toured and inspected the Sh 400 million shillings Thua River Bridge in Mutitu constituency whose construction work by the government is in progress.
