Nzioka Waita is back. Not with solutions. Not with a plan. Just noise. He strolls into Machakos like a camera-wielding tourist, pretending to understand a county he doesn’t even come from. The truth? He’s from Makueni. And yet, he talks as if he knows the blood, sweat, and progress that Governor Wavinya Ndeti has poured into Machakos. In just three years, Wavinya has done what Alfred Mutua failed to achieve in ten from revitalizing healthcare to uplifting county workers. Ask Machakos employees. They will tell you. It’s on record.
Waita’s latest act of hypocrisy? Using the nurses’ strike as a political trampoline. He won’t say that seven out of nine demands have already been met. He won’t say Wavinya is ready to return to negotiations to end the standoff. Why? Because facts kill his narrative. While Wavinya rolls up her sleeves, Waita rolls out empty statements. He is not here to fix. He is here to fish for votes.
And here’s what he doesn’t know or doesn’t want you to know. Wavinya has built dispensaries close to the people. She’s upgraded Level 3 hospitals into fully equipped Level 4 facilities. She’s decongested Machakos Level 5 with modern machines. And now, she is building the Muindi Mbingu Speciality Hospital a Level 6 giant to rival Kenyatta National Hospital. This is history in the making. But to see it, you have to be on the ground. Not flying in for political photo-ops.
Machakos remembers. When Waita was Head of the Presidential Delivery Unit and Chief of Staff, Ukambani saw nothing. Not even a whisper of development. His only real appearance in Machakos politics was the day he lost to Wavinya — badly. He vanished after that defeat, only to reappear when he smelled political blood in the water. But this county has a scarcity of fools. And no tourist, however loud, can rewrite the record of a governor delivering every single day.
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