Nyong'o's Opponents promise to work together to improve service delivery in Kisumu
By Dickson Odhiambo
February 7, 2022
Nyong'o's Opponents
promise to work together to improve service delivery in Kisumu
A team of four politicians in Kisumu County who seek to face
current Kisumu Governor Prof Anyang Nyong’o have promised to work together to
deliver the much needed services the residents of Kisumu yearn for.
This emerged during a meeting at Ahero Multi-Purpose hall in Ahero
ward within Kisumu County when the team opposing Kisumu Governor Prof Anyang
Nyong'o met elders from the seven Sub counties where they discussed the way
forward for a better Kisumu County after the August 9 General election.
In a resolution read by former Speaker of the county Assembly of
Kisumu George Onyango Oloo on behalf of other three politicians namely Former
Governor Jack Ranguma, the current Kisumu Senator Fred Outa and Chief Administrative
Secretary in the Ministry of East African Community Ken Obura, the team have
hinted that they have an elaborate plan to approach the forthcoming polls right
from ODM Party nomination to the General Elections to be conducted in August 9.
The team has asked the elders to mandate them and give a
candidate to vie for the post of Kisumu Governor in ODM Party Ticket which the
elders agreed in Unison as they compete with Governor Anyang Nyong’o in the ODM
Party primaries and to the General elections in August.
They have also asked the elders to allow them have another
candidate in case ODM party nomination won’t be free, Fair, transparent and
verifiable to face off with Governor Nyong'o in the August polls.
The third resolution with the elders is about standing together
no matter the circumstances and the political terrains during the entire
electioneering period.
At Karanda Primary school within Ahero ward where the four held
a well-attended public rally and addressed residents of Kisumu County, they
castigated Governor Nyong’o accusing him of alleged failure to deliver his
manifesto to the people of Kisumu County as he campaigned in 2017.
They alleged the issue of bad status of roads within the rural
areas of Kisumu County as well as poor health services coupled with lack of
medicines in public health facilities.
They promise to tackle and raise the issue of revenue collection
which they claim have deteriorated from a collection of shs 1.4 billion annually
during the tenure of former Governor Jack Ranguma to the less then shs 800
Million annually by the current regime.
They have promised to fully support whoever they will nominate
as their candidate for the gubernatorial seat in the forthcoming polls to
deliver their election pledges to the residents of Kisumu County.
“We the four who are here have promised to remain together and
fully support one of us who will be nominated to run for the gubernatorial seat
and we undertake to use our resources and might to ensure that candidate
becomes the next Governor of Kisumu County,” they say.
The elders’ meeting and the public rally were also attended by
the three former County Executive Committee Members who worked under Governor
Nyong’o and were sacked namely Dr. John Obiero Ogone, Thomas Ondijo and Richard
Ogendo together with former Chief of
Staff Patrick Lumumba Ouya who was equally sacked.
Former Gubernatorial aspirant Prof Gordon Wayumba is also said
to have attended the Elders meeting but did not attend the public rally at
Karanda Primary school.
During the public rally, the Chief Administrative Secretary in
the Ministry of East African Community Ken Obura said he will resign within the
next 72 hours to fully concentrate on politics in line with the requirement
that those public servants who want to join politics and seek elective posts
should resign by this February 8 which is six months to the General Elections
slated for August 9 this year.
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