Machakos County Assembly formal sittings failed to resume today as Members tussled with house leadership the whole day.
Majority Leader Mr N. Nzioka
The ward Representatives are demanding higher bursaries and a role in the disbursement, a matter they are not agreeing with Governor Wavinya Ndeti.
The disagreement cascaded into a day ĺong stormy standoff at the County Assembly premises as they faced off with the Assembly leadership.
Tension has been building since Monday when they met Governor Wavinya. They are proposing bursaries for Kes 2 million for each of the 40 wards. They are also demanding to be involved in the distribution. The Governor is said to be pushing for Kes 1 million per ward and wants to be the central force in the distribution process.
The two sides did not agree, leading to the Kamukunji and failed resumption of formal sessions.
The Assembly sittings were scheduled to resume today after a long recess since December last year.
Reports indicate there is also a scheme by the Ward representatives to dethrone the Majority Leader Nicholas Nzioka (Wangondi) who is also the MCA for Machakos Central.
His position as leader of Government business in the county assembly is said to be earmarked for an undisclosed MCA, who will henceforth become the
Although the majority of MCAs whom we spoke to remained tight lipped about the circus, his accusers claim that Wangondi has failed to champion the interests of the MCAs, and has instead preferred to lean on the executive for his unclear interests.
This, the MCAs say, could land them in serious trouble with the electorate who already expect substantial allocation to education bursaries in the prevailing hard economic times.
A section of the mcas admitted there were "unresolved issues" which would be dealt with the following day (Wednesday).
They however declined to mention what the issues were, and whom they touched.
The development came on the same day governor Wavinya Ndeti kicked off another round of public participation hearings where she engaged citizens in Kathiani, Machakos Town, Kalama and Athi River,but despite of some area Mps been in their areas still on the same bursary issuance agenda,they did not attend the Governors meetings.
