Murang’a County governor Mwangi Wa Iria dared his Nairobi counterpart Mike Sonko to go ahead and demolish his houses in Nairobi as the proposal to levy water supplied from Murang’a and consumed in Nairobi takes a new twist. The governor said he will not succumb to threats aimed at stopping him from speaking for the rights of the people from Mt Kenya region.
Wa Iria was responding to Sonko’s remarks on Thursday, October 4, when he also accused him of engaging in divisionary politics, Daily Nation reported.
“It is ridiculous for the Nairobi governor to assume that I can be cowed from speaking for the rights of Mt Kenya residents by threats that I have a building in Nairobi which he claims he can demolish. He should have done it yesterday,” said the Murang’a leader.
He further castigated Sonko for dragging the national government into the matter, saying the Nairobi governor was a direct beneficially of Murang’a water.
He also noted people from the Mt Kenya region had suffered unrecoverable loss and trauma through unreasonable destruction of business premises.
“Saying that Murang’a people in Nairobi benefit from the water is the biggest insult to us. Does Sonko expect Murang’a people who live in Nairobi to buy water and ferry it to Murang’a County where their kin live?” posed Wa Iria.
He told off Sonko saying he has failed to rehabilitate Nairobi River which should be the source of water for his county.