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Kiambu Women Representative Gathoni Wamuchomba has called and threatened a freelance journalist.

The Woman MP on Monday morning called and told of Miltone Were, the freelance journalist.

Hon Wamuchomba accused the journalist of writing a non factual story about her.

She claims that Mr Were owns a local media website dubbed Mt Kenya News, the allegations that have been denied by the journalist.

“Starting a website is not an is easy thing. It is cumbersome and requires a lot of finance to run a news site. Where can I go and get such resources from? Secondly the women representative did not even take time to ask me if I knew anything about the site but the best thing she did was to give a phone call and start threatening my life which I don’t think she’s right according to the Kenyan constitution,” Mr. Were said.

She went ahead to tell Mr. Were that she would make sure that he disappears in a funny manner if you continued writing stories about her.

Listen to the audio below

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The lawmaker is said to have been irked by two stories that were running on the site and demanded that they be pulled down.

However, the woman MP is no stranger to controversies.

She once became the talk in the country after urging local men to embrace polygamy.

In August 2017 barely weeks after clinching her seat, she went on national TV and lambasted the proposal for salary cap for MPs by the salaries and remuneration commission.

The legislator claimed that she wanted to be paid well and be honoured for who she was.

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria clashed with the Kiambu Woman Representative Gathoni wa Muchomba after he dismissed those calling for adoption of BBI report through a referendum.

It all started when Mr Kuria told a gathering at a function in Kirinyaga on Friday that there was no logic in the country spending billions to take the document back to the public when they had already given their views on the same.

“It was just the other day we spent Sh500 million collecting views on the same initiative. Why would we again want to spend more on a referendum when we can easily get everything done through Parliament where we are the people’s representatives?” posed Kuria.

But Ms Wamuchomba dismissed the parliamentary route claiming that MPs could not be trusted to undertake the process as they can be compromised.

“We cannot allow this process to be left to these political thugs and it should be left to the people who are supreme on matters Constitution,” she said.

The Woman Reps remarks attracted the fury of MPs Gichimu Githinji (Gichugu) and Wangui Ngirichi (Kirinyaga Woman Rep), who were attending a harambee in aid of Gathuthini Hope Foundation organised by Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho. Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i was in attendance.

“By simply expressing our democratic rights to state how we feel the BBI should move, and supporting that it comes through Parliament, does not make us political thugs,” Ms Ngirichi said.

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Kiambu Women Rep Gathoni Wa Muchomba Calls, Threatens Freelance Journalist (AUDIO)

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Moses Kuria, Wa Muchomba clash in front of Matiang’i over BBI