Mwangaza Calls Off Meeting With MCAs Despite Waiguru's Request

Embattled Meru governor Kawira Mwangaza has called off a consultative meeting she was to have with Members of the County Assembly (MCA) on Thursday, November 3.

Speaking to the press on Wednesday, November 2, Mwangaza noted that the MCAs have been begging her to convene a meeting with them for the past one month.

She however claimed that they would show up with Members of Parliament (MP) to the meeting which was to take place at the governor's residence.

Additionally, she revealed that the MCAs wrote to her informing her that they would skip the meeting as they had other pressing matters to attend to.

"They had requested for the last one month to meet with their governor. I wrote them a letter and they said they won't come by themselves and they wanted parliamentarians to be involved in the meeting. I wrote to the delegates of the national government and our MCAs to meet at the governor's official residence tomorrow.

"Unfortunately, they wrote saying they have other urgent matters so they cannot make it. I have done my duty of inviting them so that we have a conversation and when they will be available, they'll call me and I'll show up," she said.

Mwangaza had also called county senators and all Members of Parliament (MP) to the meeting to address the row between her and the assembly that has been rampant for almost two weeks.

In a letter on Monday, October 31 seen by Viral Tea, the governor called Senator Kathuri Murungi, who is also the county deputy speaker, all Meru MPs led by their Chair Dr Mutunga Kanyuithia, and MCAs together with their speaker Ayub Bundi to the meeting.

The governor added that Thursday's meeting was called by many leaders "with the interest of Meru people at heart” and will also include the Council of Governors, chaired by Governor Anne Waiguru.

She added that Waiguru organized a meeting between her and the Meru County Assembly leadership under Bundi on Friday, October 28 in Nairobi to resolve the stalemate.

The row began when MCAs walked out on Wednesday, October 19 after they refused to be addressed by Governor Mwangaza. Some of them through the press accused her of rejection, and that the governor was for the previous two weeks ungracious to requests of holding discussions with them and disregarding their demands.