Lands Cabinet Secretary (CS) Alice Wahome has warned politicians against engaging in politics at the expense of meaningful development that addresses the needs of the people.

Speaking during the 1st Murang’a Annual Conference on Friday, June 13, 2025, Wahome decried what she referred to as a tendency by a section of politicians to whip emotions using subjects that common people hardly understand for their own agendas.

Wahome made the remarks before President William Ruto, with many construing her sentiments as targeting a section of Mt. Kenya politicians opposed to the economic empowerment drive undertaken by Kenya Kwanza government officials across the country.

“Some cheap politics is going on here, and I must speak on it. I agree it’s too early to do politics. But even when allowed to engage in it, let us not do politics at the expense of economic development or development that speaks to the needs of the people, and you know that people at the bottom of the pyramid do not understand that language,” she stated.

The CS further vouched for the current administration, touting its record of undertaking various developments in the vote-rich region.

“I know at the end of the day the president will be given a scorecard. For Muranga, looking at what we have achieved with this government and with the presence of the president here, if we are fair, let’s team up together and leave the politicking. We do not want to lose our people in terms of development,’ she stated.

Her remarks come after Simba Arati also appealed for an end to the political bickering and a shift towards important developmental work.

Speaking at the same function, Arati noted that the time remaining should best be put to use by shunning politics.

“I’m happy to join you here in this conference today, alongside my friend, Kang’ata, whom we served as MPs together and now as governors,” he stated.

” I want to urge the people of Murang’a to focus on the work and task ahead of us and leave politics for later,” he said.

“Elections are still way too far. Let’s utilise these two years at work, and we can have people square it out in politics in the remaining one year,” he pleaded.

The governor graced the occasion at the behest of the area governor, Irungu Kang’ata.