Nzioka and Wavinya at Naivasha
The tiff surrounds Governor Wavinya Ndeti's stand over the level of funding for bursaries and who manages the funds.
According to our sources Governor Ndeti has unilaterally slashed the earlier proposed bursary budget by 50 percent- from Kes 80 million to Kes 40 million.
To add salt to injury, Wavinya has allegedly identified her
appointed Coordinators- and not the MCAs- to execute the distribution of the funds.
This, the sources say, has left the MCAs bitter to a point of open revolt. They are not hiding it.
This position is what caused the MCAs to walk out on the governor in a meeting held in her office last Monday.
The following day, they thwarted a scheduled resumption of sittings for the First Sitting of the Second Session of the Third Assembly, spending the whole day in an extremely tension packed Kamukunji.
On Wednesday, half of Wiper MCAs boycotted the First Sitting of the assembly that however established the House Business Committee.
The walk out from her Monday meeting has in turn infuriated the governor,making her livid to the point of taking the fight to the wards where the MCSs are elected. She did it in style.
To prove her resolve,Wavinya, living to her name, went to Kalama on Tuesday where a loser in the last election was introduced as the person to manage bursaries in the ward on her behalf and openly criticised the elected leader as lost. She was attending a Public Participation meeting in the company of her Deputy Francis Mwangangi which was boycotted by the local MCA.
It is also alleged that the Govenor rants menacingly at the MCAs who tend to express their opinions that differ from hers or those who support her.
It is claimed that this habit has not quite settled well, with some terming it as dictatorial, immature and disrepectul.
Governor Ndeti on the other hand is citing the principle of Separation of Powers between the two arms of government, saying MCAs have no administrative authority over bursary funds. Our sources say Wavinya is merely carrying out her role as the elected governor who campaigned on a manifesto she is entitled to fulfill. " Ideally, she has a well cut out role as Governor just as the assembly members have theirs. Let no arm interfere with the other", a source that leans towards the governor said.
This comes at a time that the Wiper party Members want to dethrone the Assembly's Majority leader who is also the Machakos Central ward Representative Nicholas Nzioka. They allege he has failed to play his role as expected and has also developed an overblown ego. Efforts to obtain a comment from Nzioka failed as he did not respond to calls and sms message from The Anchor.
The development came as theWiper party was holding meeting in Nakuru County. It is however not clear if the dethronement of Nzioka or the tiff with MCAs was discussed in the meeting.
The sources say Wavinya and the MCAs will attempt to thrssh their issues at a meeting on Monday.
