Meru CountyGovernor Kawira Mwangaza now seeking to mend faces with ward representatives.
The reconciliation efforts started last week on Friday following the intervention of the Council of Governors led by the chairperson Ann Waiguru (Kirinyaga).
Mwangaza has scheduled a consultative meeting with the MCAs on Thursday at 9am at her official residence to end the standoff.
The embattled governor has also invited Meru Senator Kathuri Murungi and several area MPs to the meeting in efforts to address the row with the assembly.
In the letter addressed to MCAs, dated October 31, Mrs Mwangaza said she was willing to sort out the misunderstanding that has threatened service delivery in the county.
“Meru County Government has been experiencing some misunderstanding for a while between the Executive and the Honourable County Assembly. Key among the cause of the misunderstanding is the ward fund
“I am ready to discuss it with the honourable members of the county assembly on its management and come up with a workable solution,” reads the letter.
The first-time governor has been at loggerheads with the MCAs over allegations of sidelining them while running county affairs.
Mwangaza had cut off all informal links with ward representatives demanding that they should write a formal letter requesting a ward development fund and explaining how it should be implemented within the law.
The MCAs had said they were willing to have a sit down with the governor but on two conditions.
One that the governor issues a public apology on claims that they had demanded a KSh 5 million bribe to approve executive committee nominees and that some had demanded jobs for their girlfriends.
The MCAs also want local MPs involved in brokering the truce.
