By Our Reporter
Businessmen and residents of Kisumu County are appealing to the wife of Prime Minister Raila Odinga to urgently take an action on a Kisumu County ODM official Charles Ocholla who is one of the party’s officials who is conning, blackmailing and extorting them using both Raila’s and Idah’s name.
The tall, burly, black man, who once contested Nyando parliamentary seat and has been rejected twice, is said to be going round in his black Toyota Pajero vehicle Registration number KAJ … targeting residents of areas where a road by pass is likely to pass within Korando.Kogony, Bandani and other areas telling him to give him money or any other form of inducement so that he takes to Raila Odinga and Mama Ida so that the said road construction plans do not pass through their lands, he is said to be also targeting institutions flanked by a man who he claims is an Engineer from the Roads Ministry yet is just a busy body along the street of KIsumu.
“This man is really tarnishing g the image of Idah Odinga, he says in some quarters that she is his girlfriend and once the cash given then the said by pass will not pass through their lands, ignorant and desperate people have even him money which he purports to be taking to Raila” one victim who never fell prey to his antics lamented.
It can be recalled that the said Mr.Ocholla once worked for former Nyando Parliamentary aspirant Paul Gogo’s insurance brokerage firm and was sacked allegedly for conning clients and disclaimers placed in major papers in the country.
He has been in and out of police stations and courts on various allegations of vices running from fraud, extortion, blackmail among other cases.
During countdown to the last general elections the man was arrested and charged in court after he defrauded one of the parliamentary aspirants from luoland three vehicles on the auspice that he was a clearing agent which he was not.
The man who hails within Kadibo division is said to be so smooth in his talk and takes time before ripping off his targets.
“When he talks with you he will lie and speak on his personal phone purporting to be either speaking to Raila or Ida in regard to your case which is actually not true” one of his victim laments.
Kisumu Police are now calling anybody who has a complaint against the man to raise it and see if he is not arrested and taken to court.
“We only hear what the man does verbally, let someone officially register any complaint and you see if we do not take any form of action” said Kisumu DCIO Peter Matu while contacted on the issue