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Barely a week after one of the ODM national delegate Julias Okinda refused to apologized over the remarks he made during the vernacular radio talk show aired by Ramogi FM radio,an ODM Mp was forced to cut short his speech over the weekend during a burial function in his constituency after he scathingly attacked the Party leader the Rt. Hon.Raila Amollo Odinga.

Hon.Joseph Oyugi Magwanga of Kasipul Kabondo in Homabay county differed with his party leader on the mode of election to be used during the yet to be announced ODM party grassroot elections.Addressing the people in Kodera location in Kasipul within the Homabay county during the launch of the “Green Kenya Initiative” the ODM party leader the Rt.Hon. Raila Odinga said that the ODM party will allow members to use their identity cards and the voters cards to elect their officials at the sub-location level, a fact that seemed to have offended the area member of parliament who felt that the party membership cards should also be a requirement for one to vote during the exercise.

At the funeral in Kachieng’ Sub-location in East Kamagak Location in his constituency Magwanga said the party leader is very much ignorant of the situation on the ground and that he as the party “patron” in the constituency has ruled the party leader out of order and that the party leader is free to impose such rules elsewhere and not in his territory.It was at that moment that the are youth leader Ayoo Mrefu confronted him as the crowd cheer him up and demanded from the Mp to apologize to the party members for publicly abusing their leader Raila.The ever adamant MP who operate an underworld political terror gang refused to oblige instead he ordered his terror squad to swing into action.His bodyguard swiftly drew a gun threatening to shoot at the crowd that had started to surge forward. Sensing danger the MP’s youths frogmarch him to his vehicle.

Magwanga has all along refused to give out party membership cards to those he perceived to be his opponents.His undemocratic actions prompted other party luminaries from the constituency to carry out a parallel party recruitment membership drive to popularize the party in the region.The team that was led by ODM covenant member Charles Ong’ondo Were,aspirant Samwel Ochillo and Young Orange Democratic Movement Volunteers co-coordinators Aguko Mayora and Omondi Otore bought thousands of cards from the party head office and were registering members without discrimination.

The action by these ODM members angered Magwanga and at one point during one of the Party Executive Council/ PG meeting at Orange House he confronted the party National Election Board Chairperson and the party secretariat for undermining him by issuing the party cards to other people from his constituency without his permission. He went too personal and worn the party Election Board Chairperson that he is soon banning him from setting foot into his constituency.A week before the Orange House incident Magwanga had circulated a short message to several persons from Homabay county implicating the party electoral Board chairperson as a PNU mole planted in ODM.

Weather the party Headquarter will take disciplinary action against the Mp Joseph Magwanga and ODM National Delegate JT.Okinda for their gross misconduct remain the decisions of the party disciplinary committee.

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