Angry women from Tharaka Nithi county removed their inner wears and dumped them outside governor Muthomi Njuki’s office claiming he had insulted them. Women from Tharaka, Maara and Chuka/Igambang’ombe constituencies accused Mr. Njuki of demeaning them by referring to them as filthy and demanded that he withdraws and apologizes immediately. They presented their grievances to the Chief of Staff, Mr. Murithi Mbiro and other county officials outside the county boss’s office as the Governor was not in the office.
One of the women said that the governor is ford of painting women negatively in most of his public addresses. She said it was demeaning to abuse women in public considering that they played a crucial role in ensuring that he was elected. “When the Governor was angry with contractors who were demanding payment, he dismissed the saying they should be paid by their mothers.” They have also accused him of financing MCAs to impeach Deputy Speaker Ms. Susan Ngugi whose ouster motion is set to be discussed; ”Our Governor has been fighting women and that is why he is pushing for the impeachment of Ms. Ngugi.”
They have also accused the county boss of demeaning Senator Kindiki by referring to him as ‘speaking like a woman’ during a recent row between the two over project ownership. The governor have also been accused of insulting women by asking them to look for ‘sponsors’ to finance a beauty pageant saying the county had no funds to waste in facilitating models to catwalk in front of Members of County Assembly who were demanding financing of the event.
The county chief of staff promised to present the grievances to the governor for action. They have given the governor one week to apologize else they will remove all clothes and demonstrate at his office naked.