Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Awendo Town.

The Awendo small farming town in Migori County is totally committed to enhance the standard of living among its residents.

The Council has committed its limited resources in the installations of street lights within the town and its environs, and also extended the work to the neighboring markets such Ranen, Mariwa and Dede..

These remarks were made by the Council Chairman Councilor Johnson Omolo Owiro during an exclusive interview with this writer in his Awendo town hall Office. He said his Council has completed the new modern Bus Terminal at a cost close to Kshs 50,000. The Council has embarked on the program of providing its rapidly expanding population with clean water for life.

The Council has recently come under severe criticism for its alleged employment of people related to the elected and nominated civic leaders in the area, the charge which the chairman strongly refuted.

Other programs earmarked by the Council included the rehabilitation of the Town’s road network, new sewerage system. Another is the recent construction of road bumps, which has now drastically reduced fatal accidents, which were daily occurrences.

Talking about the recent employment, Coun.Owiro said his Council has never employed new workers, but what it has done was to confirm all those who have been working for as casuals. “We no longer have casuals and this clearly shows that we are the best compliance to the Kenya government police of creating 500,000 new jobs annually.” There are no longer any casuals on the employment of the Council.

The chairman severely criticized political activists, who were in 2007 involved in election rivalries in Rongo constituency, of trying to derail the Council by way of heaping and spreading malicious and falsified accusation against the Council.

Coun. Owito appealed to all stakeholders to work together and get rid of criminal elements in Awendo town.

Meanwhile another motor bike taxi thief was lynched after being traced to Ahero area of Kisumu County. The thief, who is reportedly hailed from Sakwa West within Awendo district, is said to be in a group of thieves who in the recent past have been robbing the motor bike boda boda taxis of their bike and rode them to distance places where they carried business as usual.

The other accomplice was killed in Ahero area. The thief was forced on a motor bike and driven from Ahero to Awendo where he was lynched in the same spot where another motor bike thief was burnt to ashes last week.

Meanwhile an Awendo trader, Mr Seth Okong’o, who was shot five times and killed, in his house located behind his shop in Awendo Town, was buried last weekend in a tearful send off ceremony in his home near Macalder Town.

Also buried was the woman, a mother of six, who was also shot four times and killed, at the nearby Ranen market after thugs raided her living quarters. Her husband who fained death after the first short was fired, is still being treated in Hospital. The thugs descended on the woman and shot her six times, because she had raised alarm, and hacked her lifeless body with machetes.

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