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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi is set to be installed as Mt Kenya region\u2019s spokesperson today, joining a number of leaders angling to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s kingship.<\/p>\n

Speaker Muturi\u2019s coronation will be held at Njuri Ncheke shrine in Nchiru, Meru County, in a ceremony that will bring together elders from Embu, Kikuyu and Meru.<\/p>\n

Governor Mwangi Wa Iria (Muranga), former presidential aspirant Peter Kenneth, former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo, CS Peter Munya, Governor Ann Waiguru are also angling for the region\u2019s spokesperson position.<\/p>\n

Others in Deputy President William Ruto\u2019s wing hoping to get a pie in his 2022 pre-coalition agreement plans include Mwangi Kiunjuri who has registered The Service Party (TSP) and Moses Kuria with his People\u2019s Empowerment Party (PEP).<\/p>\n

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Three presidents<\/p>\n

Muturi and Munya come from Mt Kenya East region which has never produced a kingpin or a spokesperson and this may influence the region, considering that Kiambu and Nyeri in the former Central region have produced three presidents who have served for 35 years.<\/p>\n

Meru, Embu, Kirinyaga and Tharaka Nithi counties feel isolated and the entry of both Munya and Muturi may revive the clamour to have one of the two supported to succeed President Kenyatta.<\/p>\n

Muturi\u2019s appointment as the Speaker of the National Assembly was a political game plan to include Mt Kenya East region in Kenyatta\u2019s government and to quell the feeling that region had for a long time been locked out by the Mt Kenya West region.<\/p>\n

In Ruto\u2019s camp, leaders from Mt Kenya are demanding that he picks his running mate from the region and coincidentally Muturi, who is seen as the president\u2019s confidant, is among those being fronted.<\/p>\n

Kirinyaga Woman Representative Wangui Ngirichi believes Muturi\u2019s soberness, legal background and non-partisanship in running of the National Assembly make him the best person to work with Dr Ruto to represent the interests of Mt Kenya region in the next government.<\/p>\n

Prof Kithure Kindiki is also one of the leaders pushing for a regional political party that will enter a coalition deal with Ruto.<\/p>\n

Kenneth, like Muturi, has also been crowned as the Agikuyu cultural ambassador by Kikuyu Council of Elders.<\/p>\n

Before he was crowned at Mahiga Matatu Cultural Centre, Kenneth had met with Kikuyu elders and\u00a0businessman Peter Munga who is Mt Kenya Foundation chair.\u00a0He has also been meeting with elected leaders in Nairobi to discuss Mt Kenya region development.<\/p>\n

Kenneth has launched meet-the-people-tours on Sundays and started with Gatanga and Mathioya constituencies.<\/p>\n

Wa Iria, who is serving his second term, is also eyeing the presidency and has registered a political party, Usawa Kwa Wote.\u00a0Yesterday, he said leaders should pursue a democratic path through voters and not a group of people.<\/p>\n

And two MPs opposed to the ongoing scramble for kingship position said in the Sagana Declaration, it was agreed that Kenyatta will remain the region\u2019s spokesperson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen President Kenyatta invited us to Sagana to discuss BBI, we made a declaration that he will remain the region\u2019s spokesperson during and after his term,\u201d Kiharu MP Peter Kimari said.<\/p>\n

Snatch baton<\/p>\n

His sentiments were echoed by Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu who accused those angling for spokesperson position of trying to snatch the mandate from Uhuru.<\/p>\n

\u201cUhuru Kenyatta is still the regional spokesman. Anyone suggesting we have another spokesman before Uhuru is done is making the same mistake those behind Ruto are making; trying to snatch the leadership baton from Uhuru before he\u2019s done with his term,\u201d said Wambugu.<\/p>\n

On Muturi\u2019s installation, Wambugu said \u201cI like JB Muturi a lot and I think he could be a fantastic regional leader after Uhuru.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, he will need to first lead his home county of Embu from TangaTanga-ism, before the rest of us can consider him as a leader for the region.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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