The protests over the recreation facility ensued just as the dust settled over the Sh5 million the Nyandarua MCAs awarded themselves each as car and house loans.
The citizen’s group ‘Nyandarua Tuko Macho Forum’ has since threatened to move to court to oppose the move.
The chairman of the forum Macharia Mukua said that the actions of the MCAs went contrary to the expectations of the residents who were struggling to make ends meet.
“We will do everything possible to stop the assembly from misusing these funds which would be otherwise useful to the residents. This money is enough to put up murram roads for two wards and we will move to court to block the assembly from going on with the project,” he told the press in Nyahururu town.
The chairman expressed regret at the County Assemblies way of conducting business and demanded greater public participation.
“The law is very clear that there should have been public participation before any penny is spent and we wonder who they consulted before approving the spending of this kind of money,” he posed.
Fellow protester Faith Gitau condemned the move vowed to mobilize the public to take part in protests.
“I will personally lead the public protests as we cannot allow the money to be used to benefit just a few people. This is contrary to what we expected,” she said.
