from: GEOFFREY AJIKI

There are lots of rumors doing rounds that Prof. Nyongo will be vying for the Kisumu senate seat. I have not heard it from him but am seriously concerned that if this could be anything closer to the truth, then we are once again facing a bleak future as youths who hail from the county.To begin with, Nyong’o is a non performer who has failed to develop his own Kisumu Rural constituency for the two terms he has been in parliament. His immediate neighbors at home rarely see him and when they do, either Raila is spending in the Lakeside town or elections are nearing. Am not ashamed to say that his big brains should be taken to our lecture rooms to help develop the next generation of intellectuals for the country. Politics is not his game and i think a post as a lecturer at Kenyatta University would do for him.

So pathetic is the development record of Nyong’o that if he by chance gets to be the senator of Kisumu county, then we should be ready to lose the many resources we have to outsiders like it has been. For the hundreds of thousands of youths who have remained jobless and without proper education, it will be the beginning of another five years of suffering.

Let the truth be told: if he were to run for a councilor in his constituency, he would be beaten hands down like it has alwys happened. Of course everybody knows that were it not for Raila, Nyong’o would now be out of parliament because his main opponent in the last elections who also happens to be a alerned friend would have beaten him hands down. We respect you Prof but we need development minded people and not those who yell at orange house instead of serving people. You already made your future and what remains is ours. If we fail to secure it by electing a competent and able senator, we are certainly going to increase the number of school drop outs and boda boda riders. Take your good brains out of politics or wait to be a minister in the next government.

Before that, we need you people to come clear on who benefits from the factories around Kisumu like Kibos Sugar. It is in the public domain that these companies contribute money to you politicians so that they continue misusing young people without proper pay. So you eat what is not yours. If the next senator is not going to address this, then be ready for a long drawn street battle. Why has Joshua Nyamori suddenly gone silent on his criticism of Kibos Sugar? Has he also been paid?

Mr. Prof you people must know that this county is ours and if it means going to the streets to secure it, we will do it. There will be certainly no rigging or direct nomination for you this time round. If by mistake that happens, then you and Raila will never come back to Kisumu. Our suffering has reached boiling point and we are not ready for another term of failures like you.