Tigania East MP Mpuru Aburi and his Tigania West counterpart John Mutunga have clashed over the tarmacking of a section of the Miathene-Mikinduri road tarmacking.
While Mutunga claims to have lobbied for the road in his first term, Mpuru said the national government has listened to his demand to tarmack it after he (befriended) President William Ruto.
The road serves the two constituencies.
Mpuru was elected on the NOPEU party which was an affiliate of the Azimio La Umoja Coalition while Mutunga was elected on a UDA ticket.
Mutunga said he has no time to argue with Mpuru about developments but wondered how the MP would have lobbied for such few kilometres for the six months he has served.
“Mpuru is a known lair hoodwinking his electorate. Just because the road was constructed from his constituency’s side doesn’t mean he contributed in lobbying for it. It was factored for tarmacking during my first term,” Mutunga said.
Mutunga spoke in Ngundune, Tigania West when disbursing Sh50 million CDF money.
He lauded the CDF Board saying the money has been disbursed according to the number of wards in a constituency.
“My constituency used to get Sh137 million but this time round we received Sh145 million considering the five wards,” he said.
Mutunga has appealed to IEBC to split his constituency into three more wards for his people to benefit.
“The constituency is large. I am dismayed by IEBC denying us more wards considering the fact that the IEBC boundaries review, we should have two more wards from Kianjai alone because it has a population of more than 42, 000 against the required 15,000 people," he said.
“My demand is we get three wards hived from Kianjai and two wards hived from Akithi Ward. IEBC should not consider how large is but its population. We struggle to transform and uplift the lives of our people through the little we get. We cannot even afford to pay for a single student to study with CDF."
Mutunga said 94 per cent of CDF in the constituency goes to development projects while the little that is left is channeled to bursaries.
“CDF funds have the most impact on Mwananchi. There should be more CDF allocations to at least 5 per cent. We drilled 22 boreholes in my first term to alleviate the challenges of water scarcity in Tigania, what if we had twice the amount?” he asked.
Mutunga scoffed at the Council of Governors' proposal that CDF funds be reverted to county kitty terming it unrealistic and detrimental to equal utilisation of funds.
