From: Leo Odera Omolo,
PO BOX 833,
KISUMU
18th May,2011
TO: The Editor,
THE STANDARD ON SUNDAY,
NAIROBI.

RE: THE FEATURE ON KURIA COMMUNITY.

Sir your feature serializing the background of the Kuria community was excellent and good piece of journalism work. However, your writer erroneously stated that Hon Samson Mwita Marwa was the first Kuria MP.

The first Kuria MP was the late Hon Benjamin Maisori- Itumbo a clergyman-turned politician who had earlier served in the colonial legislative Council as the governor’s nominee. Itumbo was elected to Parliament on a KANU ticket in 2963 and was appointed by the founding President the late Jomo Kenyatta in the post independent cabinet as an Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Social Services.

He lost his seat to Hon Samson Mwita Marwa, a former senior administrative clerk with the County Council of South Nyanza based in Homa-Bay in the 1969 general elections.

Itumbo bounced back and trounced Marwa in 1974, but finally bowed out after suffering defeat in the hands of Walter Marwa Mwita a former Managing Director of the African Retail Traders in 1979. Mwita retained his seat in 1983.but lost it in 1988 to Eng. Shadrack Manga who in 1992 who also successfully defended his seat in 1997 but lost to the current incumbent Dr Wilfred Machage in 2002 of Narc-Kenya who successfully retained his seat in 2007 on PNU ticket.

It has been the tradition of some of your feature writers of loosing memories or not conducting proper research in the libraries when writing an article of this kind which is good for historical record and offering good reading to the younger generation.

I am also aware that you are not good at correcting such serious errors whenever they occurred, but please kindly publish this version and have the erroneous report corrected in time.

Leo odera omolo