Orange Democratic Movement ( ODM) is
set to form a taskforce to probe the wrangles facing Kisumu County. ODM Party
Leader Raila Odinga has said the taskforce will concentrate on the executive
arm of the county government and is tasked to detail recommendations to
reconcile warring factions. Governor Jack Ranguma and his Deputy Ruth Odinga
are feuding over management of county affairs. Speaking in Kisumu on Sunday
when he met Luo Council of Elders, Raila said the wrangles were hurting the
county's development agenda. The CORD leader, however, blamed the National
Government for failure to provide proper management structures within devolved
units of the county governments. He said wrangles are all over in county
governments due to teething problems that the national government has done
little to address. See also: ODM demands urgent probe into Form One selection
Service delivery "National Government has a responsibility of coordination
to ensure service delivery does not suffer at the expense of a tug of war
between governors and their deputies," said Raila. While saying that there
should be no acrimony between county leaders, Raila said a short period was
remaining before the end of the first term of devolution and that governors
needed to pull up their socks and deliver to the people instead of constant
wrangles. The county leadership have been engaged in endless wrangles in the
last one year. Mid last year, the county assembly impeached Speaker Anne Adul
in what the assembly turned lack of performance on the speaker's part. The
conflict began after members of county assembly disagreed on the motion to
suspend the assembly service board.
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