Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:43:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leo Odera Omolo
Subject: TENSION IS BUILDING UP IN SINDO FOLLOWING AN ATTEMPT BY THE GWQASSI MP TO RELOCATE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS TO A NEW SITE.
Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Mbita Town.
TENSION is building up between the two communities in Suba district over the relocation of the administrative offices from Gingo in Kakisingri to Magunga Divisional headquarters in Gwassi Central Location.
Gingo which is next to the small beach town of Sindo is the gazetted district headquarters. It already has facilities such as ultra modern district hospital, modern offices for the Country Council of Suba and nearly all the offices for the district heads of departments. Before making it district headquarters, the government acquired a large track of land by removing close to 5,000 families who were compensated with millions of shillings for their ancestral land.
A meeting was held at Gingo the previous week during which time the two communities agreed that the headquarter stay where it is at the present time and that only Mbita district headquarters, which should be moved to Mbita Point town, to cater for the residents of the newly created district.
The area MP John Mbadi had attended the leaders meeting when Gindo was endorsed as the new headquarters by the leaders. But on Tuesday, a deadly rumor started spreading like bush fire that the government has changed its mind in preference of Magung Divisional headquarters to be made the new headquarters. The rumor has caused a lot of tension.
The government on its part must address the issue to its best conclusion before the matter goes out of hand, as the one prevailing in Kuria East.
A resident, Prof Medo Misama pleaded with the government to resolve the issue urgently to avoid bloodshed. “The government must move in and the matter sorted out amicably because the threatening situation has built up as the result of simple rumors”, he said.
Residents have accused the area MP of conspiring with the Office of the President in Nairobi in a veil attempt to have the district headquarters changed from Gingo to Magunga.This is an attempt to deprive and deny the people of their rights.
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Leooderaomolo@yahoo.com
If the MP cunningly gets its way and succeeds in moving the HQ to the bush, then the people of Kaksingri will have no alternative but seek to be administered from the new Mbita district
I may sound damn but what is the purpose of these distance between Mbita- Gingo/ Kaksingiri is not thaGingo residents get services in Mbita district HQ?..if yes, what kind of services?..that they will not get from the new HQ.