My Life is in Danger, Homa Bay County Assembly Speaker says.

 Homa Bay County Assembly Speaker Elizabeth Ayoo address the press in Kisumu after recording a statement with the police over claims that her life is in danger-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

By Dickson Odhiambo.

      

October 18, 2018.

My Life is in Danger, Homa Bay County Assembly Speaker says.

HOMA Bay County Assembly Speaker has claimed that her life is in danger following the chaos that rocked the Assembly on Tuesday this week where she was attacked while chairing a session.

Elizabeth Ayoo, the Speaker of Homa Bay County Assembly has recorded a statement with the police in Kisumu at the Nyanza regional Police Headquarters wanting the police to probe a section of the Members of the County Assembly who attacked her while discharging her duty as the Speaker.

She says she has not recorded a statement with the Police in Homa Bay because she has never been safe there hence came to Kisumu to record a statement with the police on Wednesday, adding that she has been treated following the injuries she sustained.

Addressing the press in Kisumu on Wednesday, the Homa Bay County Assembly Speaker said she was chairing a session within the Assembly when a section of MCAs descended on her with kicks and blows and an MCA also threw a chair injuring her left arm.

Ayoo says she was chairing a session at the County Assembly where she was communicating information from the Orange Democratic Movement{ODM} Party in regard to the current standoff among its members who have split to two factions and are engaged in leadership wrangle at the Assembly.

“On Tuesday, the County Assembly of Homa Bay had a very turbulent moment when I started communication from the ODM party after getting a communication from it in regard to leadership at the county Assembly of Homa Bay,” she says.

She adds that even before finishing passing the information on the floor of the Assembly, a faction of the ODM Party attacked her with kicks and blow.

“Some of the MCAs had knives during the chaos at the Assembly when I was attacked when communicating from the floor of the Homa Bay County Assembly,” she adds

Speaker Ayoo says the communication she was passing to the MCAs allied to ODM Party was arbitrated by the Party’s top echelons in Nairobi on Thursday last week.

“The Communication from the ODM Party that I was passing was that the majority Leader be Hon.Walter Dada, the Majority Whip Hon Richard Ogindo and Deputy Whip Mary Ojalla, Deputy Majority Leader is Joan Ogada and the remaining positions in regard to County Assembly Service Board was to be shared equally where one person is to be from each faction,” she says.

She also says some of the staff at the county Assembly of Homa Bay have been severally attacked previously but no action has been taken against those MCAs who have been attacking the staff.

“I am asking the ODM party leadership, the EACC and the police to help in bringing sanity at the County Assembly of Homa Bay. Women MCAs especially needs protection against violence which is currently being witnessed,” Speaker Ayoo further adds.

She further appeals to the ODM Party leadership to intervene and help save the situation by bringing sanity in an amicable way that satisfies the MCAs representing the party hence the County Assembly of Homa Bay continues with its work.

Speaker Ayoo says yesterday she adjourned the Assembly in accordance to the Standing Orders after receiving information that violence would have erupted again, adding that a defiant faction went ahead and convened an illegal sitting despite the her adjourning.

She has denied claims that she has been taking sides by supporting a faction who has been wrangling over the leadership at the County Assembly of Homa Bay.

The Speaker has clarified that the Mace of the County Assembly of Homa Bay has not been stolen as claimed, adding that she is the duly elected Speaker and the Mace is under her safe custody.

When asked about if the leadership wrangle is geared towards 2022 succession politics of the Homa Bay County, she did not comment on that and only said she is sticking to her mandate as the elected Speaker of the Homa Bay County Assembly.

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