Turn up in large numbers to register as voters, Kisumu Senatorial aspirant urges residents
By Dickson Odhiambo
September 20, 2021
Turn up in large numbers to register as voters, Kisumu Senatorial
aspirant urges residents
AN Aspirant for the Kisumu Senatorial seat in the next Year’s
General Election has urged residents within the Seven Sub-counties in Kisumu County
to turn up in large numbers and register as voters ahead of the said polls.
Renowned lawyer Prof Tom Ojienda who is aspiring to be the
next Kisumu Senator during the next year’s polls in August says the forthcoming
exercise being conduct by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission {IEBC}
is a very vital one hence many register of Kisumu County who have never been
registered as voters should come out in large for the exercise that kicks off
from next month of October.
Addressing the press after meeting Kisumu Central Constituency
Orange Democratic Movement {ODM} Party officials led by their Chairman Seth
Ochieng Kanga AKA Adui Nyang and other constituency’s ODM Party officials,
Ojienda said the enhanced voter registration exercise must be taken seriously
by all those people who are ready to take part in the voting exercise during the
next year’s General Election.
Ojienda says the current population of voters in Kisumu
County is more than half a million, adding that there is need to increase it to
a million during the forthcoming exercise in readiness for the next year’s
polls.
He says this will be possible with full consultation and
involvement of the national ODM Party office as well as the Kisumu Central constituency
ODM office at the grass root level.
He says he has shared his bid to vie for the Kisumu County Senatorial
Seat in the next year’s General Election so as to improve the County’s
representation at the Senate.
“The need to focus on improving and lifting the failing
sugar industry in Kisumu County and the need to ensure that the devolve
structure work at the grass root level and is put on line as has done the current
Governor of Kisumu County Prof Peter Anyang Nyong’o have informed my bid to vie
for the Senate seat for Kisumu County next year,” Ojienda says.
He says he intends to support the Current Kisumu Governor
Prof Anyang Nyong’o’s manifesto in ensuring that Kisumu County delivers on
devolution and is a case study in the country.
Kisumu county Senatorial seat in the next year’s polls has attracted
a number of aspirants that include Prof Tom Ojienda, Former Muhoroni Member of
Parliament and the current Kisumu County ODM Party Chairman Prof Patrick
Ayiecho Olweny, Youthful Aspirant Philip Pande among others.
Former Kisumu County Women Representative and now a
nominated Senator Rose Nyamunga is also said to be eyeing the Senatorial seat
come next year’s polls.
The Kisumu County Senatorial seat is currently held by Fred
Outa who has set his eyes in contesting the Kisumu County Gubernatorial seat with
an aim of wrestling it from its current holder Prof Peter Anyang Nyong’o who is
serving his first term after being elected the Second Governor of Kisumu County
when he trounced the first Governor Jack Ranguma.
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