Kikuyu elders call on Ruto and allies against insults on Uhuru and Mama Ngina
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Kikuyu elders warn Ruto and allies to stop insults on Uhuru and to leave the former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta alone
Kikuyu elders warn Ruto and allies to stop insults on Uhuru and to leave the former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta alone.
The Kikuyu Council of Elders now wants President William Ruto’s backers to cease disparaging former President Uhuru Kenyatta
According to a publication by Daily Nation, the elders in exchange said they will ask Uhuru to stop supporting the Azimio coalition’s anti-government protests.
While speaking at a hotel on Thika Road where the elders had convened to address cultural concerns impacting the community, they also asked President Ruto’s allies to leave Mama Ngina Kenyatta alone.
The government had on Tuesday withdrawn the security detail of Mama Ngina at Muthaiga and Gatundu homes, forcing her to hire private guards.
“Mama Ngina is a national matriarch and it is a hopeless collapse of decency to make her a subject of political conµict. Since Uhuru Kenyatta is a man first and a politician second, the worst provocation that can be thrown at him is to abuse and threaten his mother,” said council chairman Wachira Kiago.
Mr. Kiago added: “We have been left speechless when we hear senior members of the Ruto government speaking very badly of Mama Ngina, the most vile being Trade CS Moses Kuria who recently threatened directly on national television to go and urinate at the pioneer First Lady’s gate.”
Former provincial administrator Joseph Kaguthi, who is a member of the council, said “politics aside, if you want real trouble with real African man, play with his mother”.
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Kaguthi added: “The best way to respond to such acts of aggression against his mother is to show them that he has the ability and courage to make life difficult for them in office.
“Mama Ngina is not a politician and even if she were dependent on that theoretical definition of politics, her age, her status, and the place she occupies in our history demands sensitivity in addressing her.
“We as elders are obliged to respect the government of the day and we have no problem accepting that we have a government. But this government must always strive to win over the masses.”
“We have heard senior Cabinet secretaries telling Mama Ngina that she should not imagine that she is in any way special because she produced the former president and was married to the founding president… such talk and one imagines that Mr Kenyatta will take it lying down… we fully understand him if he is funding the protests… we would even donate money to that cause,” said Mr Kiarie Ciombou.
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