Tigania West MP Kanyuithia Mutunga now claims that his constituency was among those that were denied development projects for opposing the 2018 handshake between former President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga.
According to MP Mutunga, the government isolated those leaders who opposed the contentious handshake and did not offer them any development projects to help their constituents.
The legislator claimed during a Tuesday appearance on Citizen TV’s Daybreak programme that the practise of favouring some Kenyans over others purely because of their political differences has aged and should be disregarded.
“Why do we feel that it is a section of the population that is going to be discriminated against is because of what we have in our minds and how we perceive development in this country,” he claimed.
“When the handshake happened those who put in the previous government in place suffered. I am one of those who never got a single development project in my constituency for four years yet we could see new projects in other areas that never voted for the previous president.”
The situation, he continued, was so bad, he and other committee leaders, including those who served in parliament, had their positions eliminated.
“I was personally ejected from the budget appropriation committee and we were basically discriminated against because we did not support the president’s move to go to a handshake which was not legal,” he said.
“We should migrate from this notion that when a government is in place it should be guided in the wrong direction and only serve a section of the people.”
Mutunga, who is currently serving his second term as the MP for Tigania West, bemoaned the fact that he still has unfinished projects that were supposed to be completed in 2017.
“I have four roads which were supposed to have been done and none of them was done, water projects which could not be done and they are still pending.”
