Homa
Bay county senator Otieno Kajwang’ might not find it easy to chair the
newly created county development board. The county MCAs hinted last week that
they would not allow the senator to chair the board which was recently
created through an act of parliament. They have termed its creation as illegal
and unconstitutional and vowed not to allow Kajwang’ to step into their
assembly under any circumstances
The
newly created boards across all the counties makes senators chairmen of the
county development boards.
Already, a similar reaction has been witnessed
at Kisumu county where Senator
Anyang’ Nyongo’ and a group of MPs from the region were kicked out
of a board meeting in Kisumu.
Kajwang’,
a close confidant of the ODM leader Raila Odinga, has lately come under severe
criticism. MPs and party leaders from Western province issued a statement
earlier last week citing him and Raila’s elder brother Oburu Oginga, Gem MP
Jakoyo Midiwo and Mohammed Junet of Suna
East as among those Raila should sideline because they are fond of
branding leaders from other regions who are supporting the part as Jubilee
moles.
A
group of party officials from all the eight parliamentary constituencies in
Homa Bay county announced that they had ousted Kajwang’ and his entire
executive of the county branch where he had been the chairman for a couple of
years. They accused the senator of having failed to call the party meeting to
iron out a certain pressing problems.
Raila,
however, insisted that Kajwang’s the ousting was not in line with the party’s
regulations.
In
Homa-Bay politics, Kajwang’ is known to be allied to the Governor
Cyprian Awiti who attended the meeting but did not side with the senator.
The MCAs declared that they would not allow Kajwang to chair any board meeting
in their assembly.
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