The
immediate former Nandi county athletics chairman Abraham Mutai is praying that
the Chesumei MP Elijah Lagat be recalled from parliament over what he terms as
lack of commitment to constituents.
Speaking
at AIC Kosirai church grounds during a fundraising meeting towards the
medication of a daughter of a former councillor, a bitter Mutai recited
unfulfilled promises, bouncing cheques and impassable road network in the
constituency.
He
said his driving force to collect signatures from voters and present to the
National Assembly speaker to announce the seat vacant was based on these
anomalies. The ousted leader also wants his area member of county assembly,
Simeon Bor, to be sent packing alongside the MP over the same grievances which
he claims have left majority of voters more impoverished than ever before.
He claims that there is favouritism and
nepotism in giving out bursaries and in awarding tenders where the youth, women
and people with disabilities are not catered for despite the constitution being
very clear.
The
legislator who was present listened pensively then disputed the allegations one
by one when he rose to speak, clarifying that his development record for the
past seven years in parliament speaks for itself. “I was re-elected because of
my good development record in last parliament when I was Emgwen MP and when the constituency was ranked among
the top performers countrywide in CDF management and utilsation,” the MP said
before he left.
The MP told the gathering that many youths,
women and people with disabilities miss out on tenders because they do not have
prequalified registered companies. He urged residents to ignore baseless
allegations from people who are only out to settle old scores but to examine his
scorecard in terms of projects he was initiating.
The
MP has had rough times with voters in the past. In the last general elections
and during the peak of the campaigns, he almost complicated his re-election bid
after he invented a propaganda campaign machinery to discredit him but he did
not manage to win. It is worth noting that the athletic official, who wants the
MP sent home lost his seat after he was taken to court by the MP’s CDF chairman
William Rono after the two engaged each other in nasty altercations in the
village.
At
the court, he was handed a two year non-custodial sentence after his lawyers
pleaded with the court on grounds that he was chairman to many institutions and
was supporting lives of many young people in the area. Officials of Nandi
county athletic Kenya association then converged to upstage and replace him
with former world 800 metres athletics champion, Wilfred Bungei owing to the
famous Chapter Six constitutional threshold on integrity. However, he still
insists that he is the duly elected branch chairman. He is squarely blaming the
MP the county assembly members and their lieutenants for the underdevelopment
and poverty in the constituency.
The constituency was hived from Mosop and
Emgwen constituencies and is yet to be gazetted as a subcounty to gain
recognition from the national government.
The
indisposed young woman Caroline Karan who is set to undergo a kidney transplant
in India, is the daughter of former Nandi county council chairman James Karan.
Among those present at the event was county woman MP Zipporah Kering, former
Moi Mr Fix it Mark Too and former county council chairman Nelson Lelei.
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