BOMACHOGE

EDUCATION minister Prof Sam Ongeri yesterday led a group of MPs and other Abagusii community leaders to drum up support for PNU candidate Joel Onyancha for the Bomachoge parliamentary by-election.Walking through inner parts of villages, Ongeri asked Bomachoge residents to re-elect Onyancha whom he said stood at a better position to assist them compared to rivals.The Nyaribari Masaba MP asked voters to shun clanism and elect leaders on their credibility.

He dismissed ODM candidate Simion Ogari and his Ford People counterpart Albert Nyaundi, terming them as political projects by outsiders.Kitutu Masaba MP Walter Nyambati asked voters not to vote for ODM candidate and blamed the party for the post election violence that rocked parts of the country.Nyambati said ODM was already divided and voting in the party candidate would be waste to the area and the community.

Wifred Ombui of North Mugirango Borabu, asked the electorate to vote in Onyancha whom he said was conversant with area politics.
He said failure to vote for Onyancha could lead to the loss if of the assistant minister’s position that he had been appointed before the seat was declared vacant.

Earlier, ODM party leader Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Narc Kenya leader Martha Karua, who is also Gichugu MP and former Kabete legislator and Safina party leader Paul Muite were in Bomachoge to drum up support for their party candidates.Speaking during a campaign rally at Bomachoge in support for his party candidate Cyprien Nyamwamu, Muite called for compensation and resettlement of all those displaced during the post-election violence.