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Kiharu MP Irungu Kang’ata says Kiambu and Nyeri must pay the political debt they owe Murang’a, adding that Deputy President William Ruto’s running mate must come from Murang’a.
“We have sacrificed for a long time, despite us taking the biggest percentage in shaping Kenya’s political history,” said Kang’ata, the Murang’a Jubilee nominee for Senator.
The MP says Murang’a, which is the origin of the Agikuyu community and the epicenter of the Mau Mau war, has not gotten its fair share of political influence, compared to sister counties of Kiambu and Nyeri.
He said that Murang’a sacrificed by “handing” the presidency to founding President Jomo Kenyatta after his release from Kapenguria in 1961.
“Someone had to vacate his LEGCO seat to pave way for Kenyatta to participate in constitutional talks in London in 1962. LEGCO was the heart of African efforts to force changes at the Lancaster House Conferences in the lead-up to self-government and later independence,” the MP said.
He added, “The then Kigumo (in Murang’a) legislator and son of former colonial chief Njiri Kigo, Kariuki Njiri, gave his seat to Kenyatta. Didn’t Murang’a give the presidency to Jomo?’’
“When Uhuru finishes his second term, Kiambu and Nyeri should swallow humble pie because they have had their share during Jomo, Kibaki and Uhuru.”
“I request my counterparts in Murang’a to join me in pushing for this agenda in our Jubilee Party,” Kang’ata said.
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Aki hiiiiiiiiii upuzi itaisha siku gani ??? Kyuks call others kihii but honestly, growing up has nothing to do with cutting a foreskin ... my fellow kyuks, why do we think like ihiiiii ???
Foolish guy! If I had way, he would set his feet in parliament!
Oih HAKIKA,kwa hakika jamaa huyu ameteuliwa kuwania kiti mbule cha Senate Muranga County ata akiwa na
mbongo lake potovu
Was this senseless,Eminus man really a magistrate in Kenya?That is why we have overcrowding in our jails if all the magimagistrates reason like him.Saa ingine tumiageni umbongo mukiongea.Who told Kangata that the seat will be occupied by all Muranganians once given to a person from the area?All these posts belong to Kenyans and anybody from anywhere can occupy it.
This is bullshit. Who says that Ruto's running mate has to be a Kikuyu? Are there no able Kenyans from other communities? Kenya will never progress with this ethnic mentality. I feel very sorry for my motherland
Oh please my fellow kikuyu people stop the nonsense, also known as tigai wana! Anyone should run for presidency as long as they are capable ...upuzi tupu
If he was a magistrate, then the litigants in his court were very unfortunate to have their cases presided by a rotten brain!
Does this fool think Kenya evolves around kikuyus and kalenjins? Way forward top leadership in Kenya must rotate among other tribes hence good recipe for bloodshed.
Anybody from all 43 micro-nations can be a president. Kenya ni yetu wote
@Kenya. Thank you for using the word " micro-nation." This special word was created by the late Dada Wangari Mathaai. She preferred the use of this word to the colonial preferred word " tribe."
I ask all Africans and anybody else in the world who has been a victim of European lexical insults to use positive words in identifying themselves and stop propagating the negative words used to address them by the former colonial terrorists.
In Kenya, these former "colonial terrorists " coined a few micro-nations who did nor exist before. They came up with "Kalenjin," and the "Luyia " fake micro-nations. The so called Luyia were previously called the "Wakavirondo." These word put together all the residents around lake Nyanza, (please don't call this lake a terrorist name from England who was then known as Queen Victoria) and South Nyanza, including all the people north of this lake.
The use of the word "luyia" is an insult. Why, it is composed of 18 different micro-nations who sometimes don't understand each other's language and culture. For example when a member of the Logooli ( wrongly addressed as Maragoli) micro-nation meets a member of the Bukusu people, they have to speak in Kiswahili or English! Yet they have been lumped together as "Luyia." The food eaten by these members differs a great deal. For example, Tiriki people eat monkeys, while their neighboring Logooli people don't! The Bukusu eat worms from the cow dung as part of their cuisine! The Bukusu and many of these groups circumcise their males while the Samia don't.
The use of this word coined by a British religious terrorist at Maseno (Deacon Owen) should not be used especially 53 years after attaining our independence from he British terrorists who stolen the land of Kenya and occupied it before they were booted out by our famous Land and Freedom fighters who were identified by the word "MAU MAU " a word coined by the British terrorists in Kenya. They identified the "Gikuyu " people as "Kiuks." A word the Gikuyu people have now discarded. The so called "Luyia " people should do what the Gikuyu people did and call themselves what they called themselves before the coming of the British terrorists.
@Kenya: Thank you for using the word that Wangari coined before she passed on.
Haaaaaaaa mr kangata is expressing his freedom of speeech n thinking which is on our constitution so watu wadiaspora give your views without talking shit???Personally I support the vice to come from meru or embu.Diaspora pple this is called politics n they are all over the world so mjipange n understand it.Kikuyus have every right to compete in that big office n so do others tribes n nobody is forced to vote at the voting day so tuwache Hizi childish mentality ya ati kwa I is it only so n So has to b in power.
What a stupid man. Stupidity. Go play in the traffic. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
All Kenyans have sacrificed. This is nonsense. Think broadly.