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| Cecily Mbarire addresses a public gathering during happier times, on her campaign trail |
Drug addiction is said to be the worst form of addiction, but after witnessing in different Media how corruption mulled the botched Jubilee Party primaries on 21st April 2017, in Embu County especially, I have a different view. Corruption addiction is real.
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| During campaigns, she was treated like a queen and made to believe that she was the people's favorite |
I guess Cess Apaa, would get a seizure, flu or something if she takes a break from engaging in corrupt activities. She may even feel itchy and start scratching herself in public. You might think I have something personal against this daughter of Ndega but no, in the contrary, I love her - as a woman, not as a leader - its only that I respect her marital status else I would not mind; after taking her to a ‘corruption rehab center’ on behalf of EACC, of course.
She is beautiful alright, but behind that beauty is a political alligator; a cold, calculating, ruthless political vampire who can suck the blood of her opponents like a cold glass of milk on a hot day. Damn! She is a thirsty political vampire.
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| Moment of shame; Cess is alleged to have been caught with her thongs down, messing with votes |
For starters, she is a scion of KANU – political machinery - we know what that means. She has been the Member of Parliament for Runyenjes Constituency since 2007. In those ten years, plus five as a nominated MP, give me A LIST OF ONE THING she has done to improve the lives of her constituents. There is a way MPs lobby government and government agencies to get jobs done in their constituencies, but in Runyenjes, women still fetch water from rivers, or from neighbors whose taps still run. Kamwithi’s taps. (Those born in 70s and early 80s know what I’m talking about)
Five of those years, she was Assistant Minister for Tourism, and with all the tourist attractions in Embu, she didn’t do anything relevant to promotion of domestic tourism. At least not in Embu.
Again, even with the aggressive rural electrification program, there are villages with no power; apparently, they are too far from transformers, but in real sense, it is because some villagers in such areas had dared pinpoint her weaknesses. That is not funny. Now she wants to become Embu governor. Now that’s funny.
Dispensaries she has built using CDF, at inflated costs, are yet to smell drugs and staff. Her operations are very predictable: Appear during campaigns, work with a few people, pour money, bribe voters, and then disappear to her Teso home and make profit from the huge campaign investment, it’s very painful.
As if that is not enough, she is a known national looter, every now and then caught up in a web of graft allegations. Every Tom, Dick and Harry knows that. She is the ax that felled the celebrated anti graft Tsar, PLO Lumumba, when he targeted her for investigation on graft allegations. Companies associated with her close family members are adversely mentioned in multi million government tenders malpractices.
She is very cunning though. Every times she’s caught with her thongs down, she calls the press and wearing that innocent baby face, pleads innocence until babies believe she is innocent! That’s exactly what she did in the cancelled party primaries, and after the exercise was rescheduled, whereby she lost to the incumbent governor, Martin Wambora, she’s gone ahead to petition.
The thunder that will strike her is still doing press ups up in the skies - a political thunder that will shake the entire Embu politics.
The author is a professional Political Analyst, and a resident of Embu County
