Kiambu County Governor Dr Kimani Wamatangi before the Senate Standing Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources at Bunge Tower, Nairobi, on July 21, 2026.

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Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi has said his fallout with the national government had led to his prosecution on fictitious charges.

The county boss on Monday revealed that powerful people within the government had hatched a plan to sponsor a motion to have him impeached by the county assembly after he refused to participate in a conflict of interest in which senior government officials wanted to grab land under the guise of constructing affordable housing.

Mr Wamatangi never revealed the identities of the powerful people behind the alleged land grabbing, and there is no evidence to support his assertions.

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He was speaking in Kiambu when he enumerated his achievements since he took office.

The governor went on to claim that the freezing of his bank accounts, ongoing investigations by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and the subsequent demolition of his 40-year-old business in Nairobi this year were part of a wider strategy to create grounds for his alleged impeachment.

“The plot aimed to throw my administration into chaos, derail the implementation of my manifesto, tarnish my name through high-level propaganda and cripple me financially to set the stage for my removal and spark a voter revolt against me in 2027,” Wamatangi claimed.

“No other leader has been tormented by this government more than Wamatangi. One would even wonder, whom did I offend? Just because I refused to let some elected leaders grab public land,” he added.

He claimed that some of the land targeted for grabbing included 100 acres in Gatuanyaga, Thika, valued at over Sh3 billion, and another prime piece of land in Tigoni, Limuru, belonging to the National Potato Research Centre.

As the country marks four years since the last General Election, Wamatangi says his administration prides itself on constructing 512 new Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) centres, 32 new hospitals, renewing medical equipment, installing 12,000 solar streetlights, constructing bus parks, 26 new markets and creating 150,000 new water connections.

📰 Source: Nation Africa