Nairobi Gubernatorial aspirant Polycarp Igathe has said that the majority of Nairobi Members of County Assembly (MCA’s), majorly from the Agikiyu community are part of a cartel that has been syphoning public funds at City Hall.
Igathe, Jubilee party’s candidate in the race to succeed Governor Anne Kananu was speaking in Nairobi on Thursday, June 23 when he met members of the Kenya Private Sector Associations (KEPSA).
In his address to KEPSA, Igathe accused his fellow tribesmen who hold public office in Nairobi county and the national government of greed and corruption.
“Nairobi has forty-five MCA’s and I can tell you because I like to speak mother tongue because this is politics, that the 45 Kikuyu MCAs are controlled by three Somalis,” Igathe said,
Igathe who resigned from office as Deputy Governor barely a year after taking over the county’s reigns with Mike Sonko as the governor accused the MCAs of conducting shady deals aimed at bankrupting the county’s coffers.
“There’s a cabal, the capture is too serious. Even yesterday they were doing things that were completely illegal and elusive. As late as yesterday, now you wonder, my tribesmen, this money… what are we going to do with it,” Igathe said.
He further stated that the MCAs and other public holders from the Kikuyu tribe who engage in corruption had defied the original values of Agikuyu political culture.
“The political culture of the Agikuyu community used to be lion-hearted. Now it has become ‘volturistic’ and ‘hyenastic’. The lion used to feed on its prey now we are feeding on each other, we are tearing each other apart,” Igathe said.
The former DG further insisted that there are a few people in the Agikuyu community who have too corrupt to let other nationals thrive.
“We have a few people who have become way too greedy. Go to the county right now. The invoices being paid are being paid to a few people in one community. Salaries are not even being paid. The Nairobi county worker is the most demotivated,” he said.
Igathe further argued that the corruption within the walls of City Hall has grown in leaps and bounds five years later after he assumed office as DG.
“I am taking over a county that has debts of over Ksh85 billion. When Sonko and I took over, we had Ksh58 billion in terms of debt. I don’t how this happened,” an optimistic Igathe said.
The gubernatorial aspirant further urged KEPSA to front him for the seat promising to be a tough leader.
“Ladies and gentlemen you can not give this job to somebody who doesn’t have the competence to get it done. I will deal with these MCAs politically. The political parties are the shareholders of politics. That was a loaded statement,” Igathe said.