Willis Otieno lectures Nakuru governor Kihika for launching a water tap
Constitutional Lawyer Willis Otieno lectured Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika after the circulation of a photo showing her launching a water tap.
Through a post on X on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, where he reposted the earlier picture that Kihika had dismissed as propaganda, Otieno regretted that a county boss with vast resources would choose to make a tap her flagship project.
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“A whole governor, with all the budget, all the power, all the prestige… and your big legacy, is launching a tap? Not a hospital, not an industry, not a program to employ youth; a tap,” Otieno wrote.
His post immediately went viral, attracting debates on the quality of county leadership and the projects governors prioritise.
He contrasted Kihika’s launch with initiatives in Murang’a County, where Governor Irungu Kang’ata has unveiled hospitals, dialysis centres, and agriculture programmes.
“Meanwhile, the Murang’a Governor is launching hospitals, agriculture programs, CT scan machines, dialysis centers, and you are here chest-thumping about a tap?” Otieno added.
Governor Kihika had earlier rubbished the claims, accusing critics of recycling propaganda. In her own post, she said the narrative of launching a “dry tap” was misleading.
“What is this foolery mko nayo ati launching a dry tap? Propaganda ya 2 years ago mumeamsha tena? Hamchoki? Enyewe, an idle mind is whose workshop?” she wrote.
Kihika speaks out
She further clarified that the tap was functional, only that she initially struggled to operate it during the ceremony.
“For the record, it wasn’t a dry tap, I just couldn’t seem to operate it at first, but I guess the agenda must agend!” Kihika posted.
Otieno, however, doubled down, mocking the idea of celebrating such a project. “Even landlords launch taps every day in their plots without calling a crowd.
Honestly, if this is leadership, then even my caretaker deserves to be called Mheshimiwa,” he said, sparking a flood of memes and jokes online.
The spat has since dominated online spaces, with “tap politics” trending on Google and X. Analysts argue the exchange reflects wider frustrations among Kenyans over what they view as misplaced priorities in county governments.
The debate is expected to continue as Nakuru residents and Kenyans at large weigh whether Governor Kihika’s water tap launch was service delivery or a symbol of poor leadership optics.
