He said the county is trying to hide the fact that most of Wote has no piped water.
“I do not understand why you should deny donkey operators their livelihood for a whole week. The whole thing stinks,” he said.
Maanzo said the county government should have sent an official letter to the clerk or Speaker of the National Assembly.
“The Speaker would then have released us for one week knowing we are at the conference. But this never happened,” he said.
He also complained street light billboards bearing his image as the area MP, were brought down by goons.
Mwingi West MP Charles Nguna said he could not “gate-crash” the event.
“In other regions which have hosted the devolution conference the regional MPs are always part of the meeting. But here we got no invitation,” he said.
“We are only recognised when we are passing the division of revenue bill. This attitude needs to change.”
However, Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jr, who is also running for governor, attended the meeting and played host to Speaker Kenneth Lusaka and about 20 senators who attended the opening ceremony.
Governor Kivutha Kibwana did not respond to the MPs' complaints when asked by Star.
In his speech at the opening conference, the governor said Makueni was one of the best performing counties in combating climate change.
“In the sphere of climate change, counties have done more than was expected. Thirty-three counties have legal framework on climate change. The 14 who do not have the framework are at the tail end of it,” he said.
The governor also said Makueni would engage engineers to assess if its old buildings could withstand the vagaries of climate change such as extreme heat and floods.
