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Final list of councillors released
Published on February 23, 2008, 12:00 am

BY Saturday Standard Team

EXCERPTS:
Mayoral elections were thrown into a spin as names of key contestants were missing from a gazette notice.

The names of nominated councillors were handed over to the Local Government without alterations, Electoral Commission of Kenya chairman, Mr Samuel Kivuitu, confirmed on Friday night.

There has been heightened activity in Mombasa, Nairobi, Kisumu, Eldoret, Nakuru and other major councils — ahead of the elections on Monday. At least 2,402 elected and 759 nominated councillors are expected to take part.

The name of Former Adopt-A-Light Managing Director, Miss Esther Passaris, ODM choice for Nairobi mayor, was missing in the list published on Friday. She spent the day campaigning among civic leaders opposed to Baba Dogo ward councillor, Mr Godrey Majiwa.
Councillors supporting Passaris left a meeting at a Nairobi hotel on Friday worried, as it emerged that PNU and affiliate partners are now keen to front one of their own after realising ODM would go to the mayoral election divided.

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Nairobi City Council, which has 25 nominees, had 24 in the list released on Friday by Local Government Minister, Mr Uhuru Kenyatta.

Contacted about why the list for Nairobi had a name missing, ECK Deputy Secretary, Mr Chege Suleiman referred The Saturday Standard to Uhuru. “Let him show you the exact list that we submitted to him,” he said.

In a related development, two names proposed by the Party of National Unity (PNU) were missing from the list published in Kenya Gazette amid allegations of underhand dealings.
The first casualty was Mr Wilfred Apencha, the PNU treasurer, who immediately complained to the minister.

The other nominee whose name was missing was Ms Recho Wanjiku Kamwaro.

The most controversial inclusion in the list was the name of Mr Lee Muchiri, who is an ally of former Sports minister Mr Maina Kamanda.
Muchiri contested the Kasarani Parliamentary seat after he was handed the PNU ticket in an acrimonious manner, but lost to Ms Elizabeth Ongoro of ODM.

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And the seven councillors from Nyatike Constituency who fled to Tanzania at the height of violence have returned through Isebania, Kopanga and Muhuru border crossings.
The PNU leaders quickly went into secret locations after a brief appearance in Migori town.

They include Zakayo Odero Adem (Kanyasa Ward), Albert Onuko (Nyakwere), Zakawa Dickens (Kanyarwanda), Owino Okoth (Macalder), Okuno Joseph (Got Kachola), Osodo Robert Oluoch (Muhuru East Ward) and Mrs Omoro Atieno, Kaler ward.

—Reports by Brian Adero, Maseme Machuka Khadija Yusuf, Issac Ongiri, Titus Too, and Ayub Savula, Joseph Murimi and Aboya Ochola

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