Lobby Condemns Nominees for the Kisumu City Management Board.

 Audi Ogada, a resident and a voter in Kisumu County address the press during a past press conference in Kisumu. He has led a lobby group in rejecting the list of nominees to the Kisumu City Management Board-File Photo.

By Dickson Odhiambo

     

 May 15, 2018.

Lobby Condemns Nominees for the Kisumu City Management Board.

A LOBBY Group in Kisumu County has strongly condemned a list of nominees announced recently by Kisumu Governor Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o so as to be members of the Kisumu City Management Board after being approved by the County Assembly of Kisumu.

The lobby known as Kisumu County Accountability Watch claims the proposed names was done in skewed, favoritism and nepotism championed.

In a letter dated 12-5-2018 written by Audi Ogada, a resident and a voter in Kisumu County, Ogada through the Lobby claims that the exercise was riddled with corruption, adding that as much as the list that was recently submitted to the Clerk of County Assembly of Kisumu was allegedly tampered with in respect to sector representation.

Ogada claims that some of the people in the list are representing sectors for which they were not shortlisted for interview.

“A case in point is; informal sector represented by Sagar Nichandrah Shah, Private Sector represented by Salim Farida Ahmed, neighborhood represented by Sheila Adhiambo Okal.The Urban Areas and Cities Act 2011, is very explicit on the composition of the City Management Board,” Ogada says in his letter.

Ogada says that the youth fraternity has also been left out in the proposed names yet they form the largest number of population and voters in Kisumu County.

“It is against this background that we demand the following to be effected immediately; names of all the applicants who were shortlisted for the interview and the sector they represented, performance of each applicant in the interview, recall immediately the list of nominees submitted to the National Assembly , Immediate removal of Sagar Nichandrah Shah, Salim Farida Ahmed and Sheila Adhiambo Okal from the sectors they purport to represent,” the letter adds.

The lobby has threatened to hold peaceful mass demonstrations and seek legal redress without further reservations if the above demands are not met.

On April 12 this year, Kisumu Governor Prof Peter  Anyang' Nyong'o nominated 11 people to be in the Kisumu City Management Board and the County Assembly of Kisumu is yet to approve the names.

Individual member categories include Lawrence Gumbe, John Omija, Obware Ken Akoko, Charles Owoko Ochome, Elijah Adul and Rose Arungu Olende.

Former Nominated Councilor who is also a former Mayor Sam Okello has been nominated to represent an association of towns while Sheila Okal has been nominated to represent registered neighborhood association.

Peris Ochola and Salim Farida Ahmed has been nominated to represent professionals and Private Sector respectively while Sagar  Nichandrah Shah has been nominated to represent informal sector.

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