Kitui South MP Rachel Nyamai has vowed to support and cooperate with President William Ruto’s administration so that her constituents benefit from government development programmes.
The third term MP who was re-elected on a Jubilee party ticket in 2022, pointed out that her hobnobbing with Ruto and his government has so far proved gainful as her constituency is reaping big in terms of development.
Nyamai vowed to continue supporting President Ruto and collaborating with his administration until he exits as President.
She said it would be foolhardy for her to support the opposition pegging hopes on a promised future government with nothing to show that the opposition would form the government.
The MP said she would continue to resist pressure from some quarters including people from her home region, who want her to join the opposition.
"We will remain opposed to those who want us to take the route of underdevelopment. Being in the opposition as we wait for a promised future government will deny my people development," she said.
"Our people will benefit from the current government and thereafter if the promised government ever comes, we will still be in it and reap benefits too," she said.
Nyamai was addressing a public rally at Mutomo trading centre in her constituency last Thursday.
"The most difficult and ill-advised thing is to be in the opposition. While in the opposition you turn to opposing everything without any reason," the MP said.
She said President Ruto had ordered the release of Sh1.5 billion for compensating people who surrendered their land for the building of the Kibwezi -Kitui-Mwingi highway.
She said the majority of those affected were from her constituency and the President had done them a great favour after the suffering they have endured for long.
The MP added that her constituency had been allocated Sh280 million for an electrification project. She said the multi-million shillings project will be launched by Ruto once he visits Kitui in June.
Further, the legislator said Ruto’s government was putting up a Sh50 million modern market at Mutomo trading centre besides an affordable housing project in the same town.
She said the government plans to tarmac the Ikutha -Mutha -Mutomo road loop. Out of the Sh52 million dished out to Kitui in the 2024/25 financial year for human-wildlife conflict compensation, most beneficiaries were her constituents, she added.
