A section of youths in Kisumu who stormed Kisumu governor's office disrupting the Kisumu County Development Board meeting that was supposed to be chaired by Kisumu senator Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o on Monday Photo/Maurice Alal
Kisumu senator Anyang' Nyong'o has blamed senior officials from the Kisumu governor's office for disrupting his first County Development Board (CDB) meeting.
"Let no impression be given that youths and county residents disrupted our meeting at the Kisumu Governor's office yesterday," said Nyong'o in a statement.
The senator said four goons hired by a high ranking official in the Governor's office was responsible for the melee. He said the persons were well known to Kisumu people, and "were doing their dirty and ill intentioned work which will never deter us from serving the Kisumu County."
More than 15 rowdy youths on Monday stormed a meeting convened by Nyong’o over the earlier scheduled County Development Board (CDB) meeting. The youths shouted at Nyong’o and five MPs who had attended the meeting demanding them to halt the meeting saying it was meant to kill devolution.
The youths accused the leaders of being Jubilee moles after accepting to attend the CBD meeting which they claim was a plot to derail county activities.
They said that Nyong’o was behind the problems that ODM party was facing and threatened to recall him.
“Why is Nyong’o rushing to chair the CBD meeting. We know he does not mean well to the county,” Austine Oduor alias Makamu, a youth said.
The youths who were involved in the incident are referred as “Wadadisi” and are allegedly paid Sh20, 000 each monthly.
However the CBD meeting failed to take place after the High Court temporarily barred senators from convening meetings. The order came after the Senate failed to respond to an application by governors seeking interim orders to halt process.
Some of the MPs who attended the meeting are Aduma Owuor (Nyakach), James Nyikal (Seme), Fred Outa (Nyando) and Olago Aluoch (Kisumu West).
Other included Kisumu Women Rep Rose Nyamunga, Kisumu majority and minority leaders Samuel Ong’ou and Philip Anayo.
Kisumu East MP Shakeel Shabir his Central and Muhoroni counterparts Ken Obura and Onyango Koyoo were absent with apology.
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