Gov Natembeya accuses MP Sudi of threatening him after criticising Ruto’s tour of Western
Trans Nzoia governor George Natembeya has decried alleged harassment by Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi after criticising Ruto's tour of Western
Trans Nzoia governor George Natembeya has decried alleged harassment by Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi after criticising Ruto’s tour of Western.
MP Oscar Sudi went for governor’s jugular after the latter seemed to pick holes in President William Ruto’s recent working tour of the Western Kenya region.
Natembeya belittled Ruto’s development tour across four counties in the region recently saying they had no value to the residents there; Ruto was in Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia and Vihiga counties.
He said many parts of Western Kenya remain underdeveloped and the president’s routine tours are meant to blind the locals.
Natembeya claimed there was a glaring discrepancy in terms of development whenever Western Kenya is compared with other regions.
“The president was in Western Kenya for six days, going round launching nothing. They were taking him to launch a transformer, and in other places opening old markets built decades ago. He was once here to open a tap, a whole president.; There are people around the president who do not tell him the truth; he should listen to those who advise him with the truth. There is no development in the Western Kenya region,” Natembeya said.
The foregoing sentiments seemed to have irked Sudi, who apparently attacked him in a WhatsApp chat that has been making rounds on social media networks.
In one of the messages, the MP hurled an unprintable on the governor, and in another one, he seemed to threaten him for criticising the government.
However, one of Natembeya’s aides said that the county boss remains unsettled by such threats and harsh messages.
He claimed that there had been a plot engineered by Sudi to impeach Natembeya; the machination however failed.
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The aide, however, clarified that Natembeya had no blood with the president and that he would accompany him in his oncoming visit to Trans Nzoia.
“Impeachment was hot hair Sudi is the one who was planning but failed. He will never feel intimidated but the question is why would someone abuse you? He will accompany him as he’s the head of state, he doesn’t have any personal problem with the president,” the aide said on anonymity condition.
Natembeya’s leftism in Trans Nzoia and the larger Western Kenya region has lately been gaining traction.
The county boss, elected on a DAP Kenya party ticket, seeks to alienate the region from the traditional native politicians the likes of National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi whom he says have not benefitted the region despite being in successive governments.
Natembeya has been championing the Tawe Movement, which seeks to embolden Western Kenya to enhance its chances of having a say in national politics.
There have been murmurs that he could make a stab at the presidency in the next vote.
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