In a chilling spectacle of tyranny, Machakos Speaker Anne Kiusya has crossed the Rubicon from incompetence to outright brutality. On what should have been a routine day for legislative affairs, the Assembly turned into a battlefield as sergeant-at-arms and uniformed police officers, allegedly acting on her orders, descended upon MCAs with violence. Katangi MCA Felix Ngui bore the brunt of this barbarism his coat torn, his leg nearly broken, and his body kicked to the ground at the Assembly gate, where he and fellow MCAs were being violently barred from entering the chambers to perform the duties entrusted to them by the voters. Left groaning in pain and humiliation, his only “crime” was attempting to carry out his constitutional mandate. This is not leadership. It is state-enabled political thuggery and Kiusya must be held accountable.
Sources with
in the Assembly revealed to our senior political reporter that Kiusya’s iron-fisted actions stem from a clandestine pact sealed during her recent visit to State House, where President William Ruto is said to have issued a directive: paralyze the Assembly, silence defiant MCAs, and sabotage service delivery in Machakos. Since then, Kiusya has ruled like a colonial governor, issuing suspension letters to defiant MCAs and weaponizing security forces against dissent. This descent into autocracy is a direct affront to Kenya’s constitutional values and a betrayal of the public’s trust. But power, no matter how violently enforced, is ephemeral. The people of Machakos are watching and they will remember.
Propping up this regime of chaos is a well-oiled triangle of betrayal, with former Governor Alfred Mutua and Mavoko MP Patrick Makau at its other vertices. These two power scavengers, now firmly in bed with Kiusya and backed by State House, have aided in stripping MCAs of their committee memberships, especially those who dared challenge the Speaker’s draconian rule. In return, they’ve flooded key Assembly roles with loyalists stooges rewarded not for competence, but for complicity. What we are witnessing is the defilement of devolution: a county legislature reduced to a puppet theatre controlled by puppeteers in Nairobi, with Kiusya as their loyal marionette.
But Machakos has not surrendered. Beneath the surface of fear and repression, resistance is swelling. Residents, civil society, and remaining courageous MCAs are beginning to push back. The Wiper Party, under Kalonzo Musyoka, has drawn a clear line: traitors will be excommunicated, collaborators will be named and shamed. The ballot box looms, and with it, the promise of political reckoning. This is not just a clash of personalities—it is a battle for the soul of Machakos. And the people will not forget who broke their trust, trampled their rights, and turned their Assembly into a war zone.
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