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A meeting between a group of former parliamentarians from central Kenya and the opposition leader Raila Odinga sitting and former deputies in the region.
The three-hour in camera meeting appears to have caused panic among some elected leaders in the region, reinforcing their mistrust of their rivals who began last year with the Jubilee Party primaries.
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The group that met Raila last week is made up of people who competed unsuccessfully in the 2017 elections as independent candidates after claiming to have been snatched away from the Jubilee primaries.
Ex-legislators issued a statement Friday, accusing a section of acting MPs fighting the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition Raila Odinga on March 9.
Former MP for Mukurweini, Kabando wa Kabando, said that there was a section of MPs from central Kenya who were fighting the Uhuru-Raila building bridges initiative.
"With the handshake, the company" Insults Raila "has collapsed in central Kenya." Desperate political leaders are now left with only the option of fighting those who are pro-handshake, "said Kabando.
The former deputy said that it was obvious that the region was now divided into two separate camps – those who support the crackdown on corruption and those who seek to sabotage the same thing.
"We chose to be with Uhuru all along and accept his agreement with Raila for our homeland to come together and prosper," Kabando said.
Former Tetu deputy, Ndung & Githinji, said their meeting with Raila did not fit into the political agenda of 2022 but was purely for the sake of to be from the country as a result of the handshake between the two leaders.
He said that they have not discussed the succession of President Kenyatta, but the rigorous way to go before joining the country.
The former Kigumo MP, Jamleck Kamau, is asked on behalf of whom some of the leaders insulted them.
"We want to tell skeptics that the train to reform Kenya is now leaving the station and that we should all board or be made irrelevant," Kamau said.
Statements by former legislators come against statements by a section of MPs in the region that Raila was using them to divide the region before the general election of 2022.
Among the leaders who endorsed the statement were former Senator Murang & Kembi Gitura, former deputies Joshua Toro (Kandara), Jamleck Kamau (Kigumo), Kabando Kabando (Mukuruwe-ini), Ndung & Githinji (Tetu), David Ngugi (North Kinangop) and Wambugu Nyamu.
Others were Essau Kioni, Dr. Njururi Mutahi and Mount Kenya Professionals Association.
Mathira's deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, is one of the leaders who brandished weapons, accusing Raila of wanting to split the voting block of central Kenya before 2022.
"Mr. Odinga is now trying to create mischief in Jubilee because we have elected leaders in Mount Kenya who should speak on behalf of the people," Gachagua said.
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