By Arrum.Tidi Ogonglo In Muhoroni Town.

The collapsing and limping sugar factories, pathetic state of access and feeder roads, poor and biased disbursement political thuggery and insecurity of CDF money, couple with bad political leadership are some of the issues which are likely to feature prominently during the during the campaign in the impending general election slated for March4,2013.

The incumbent MP for the area is Prof.Patrick Ayiecho Olueny, who is also the Education Assistant minister in the coalition government.

The MP is facing the stiffest opposition from two prominent political personalities in Muhoroni district. They included the populist Nairobi based businessman James Onyango K’Oyoo, a former IT manager with the Shell BP oil firm in Houston US, Agwenge Mbeche.

All the four white sugar manufacturing mills are located in Muhoroni constituency. They are Miwani Sugar Mills, Chemelil Sugar Company, Muhoroni Sugar Company and the Kibos Sugar and Allied Industries.

Out of the four sugar mill, two of them Miwani and Muhoroni Sugar Mills are currently under the official protective receivership with Miwani having been closed down over 12 years ago after being heavily indebted to its suppliers, workers and sugar cane farmers in its cane growing zones.

Both Muhoroni an Chemelil are still functioning, but not producing enough sugar as per their daily production capacities with Chemelil almost grounding to a halt due to many reasons, which included the alleged mismanagement of its resources, failing to pay its suppliers in time.

The Company,which a public firm is reportedly heavily indebted to the KRA, Kenya Power and Lightning Company, the workers and cane farmers.

Chemelil fired its former managing director Eng.Edwin Otieno Musebe, at Luhyia last year and replaced him with the company’s former Agricultural Manager Charles Owelle in a controversial ridden politically and tribally motivated appointment that took many stakeholder by surprise, because Owelle had on two occasions acted as the managing director in which his performance were said not to be attractive enough to warrant his appointment.

The farmers have since placed the blame at the doorstep of the Kenya Sugar Board and the parent Ministry of Agriculture which were the joint appointing authorities.

IT is only the Kibos Sugar and Allied Industries Mill a privately owned firm, which is still operational, while Muhooni also is functioning, but also limping due to acute shortage of raw materials {cane} duet poor planning f cane husbandry within its cane growing zone.

The signs that Prof Ayiecho’s future s the MP for Muhoroni is gloomy surfaced during the recent funeral of the brother of the Nyando County Council chairman Samuel Onyango Ong’ou in Wang’aya location where mourner were forced to scampered for their dear lives as the ell attended burial ceremony became chaotic.

The trouble started when the populist Onyango K’Oyoo turned up triumphantly, but late at the well attended funeral accompanied by about 300 youth shouting obscene words at the MP.

The plea by the MP to the huge crowd of mourners to remain calm and remain seated were never heeded forcing the legislator to himself to fled the scene amid hails of stones and other missiles.

The MP himself had to fled during which unconfirmed report says his body guards were forced to fire gun shots to the air to scare away the life threatening situation.

At another recent function K’Oyoo made a call to the government and the Kenya Anti Corruption authority to send a team of competent auditors to carry out the forensic auditing of CDF and other government devolving funds in Muhoroni constituency.

There have been a lot of hue and cry by the electorate who blame the MP for having filled all the seats in the local CDF disbursing committee with his own political cronies and sycophants and thereby making sure that only projects which are located in areas where the MP had deceived votes during the 2007 general election got the better part of the money.

The MP who has represented Muhoroni or the last 15 years is also facing other allegations of gross interference in the work of school heads, failing to articulate the problems facing the sugar cane farmers, poor working relations with the members of the sugar cane farming fraternity in the area, who have suffered the brunt of mismanagement of sugar factories.

Other allegations, which the MP must come out clean include the alleged increase in political hooliganism and thuggery especially those witnessed during the ODM grass root elections and the 2007 genera election in which political goons were recruited and imported from outside Muhoroni and also during the Kenya Sugar Board zonal directors elections.

The electorate in the area have made it clear that the are is now ripe for a major political shake up ,and that the time for a change is long over due .They are saying the area is yawning for a new face of an MP who will work loosely with all the stakeholders, particularly the cane farmers.

Ayiecho who previously never fail to mentioned the Prime minister Raila Odinga in all his undertakings is said to be of lately rather silent and not mentioning the name of the Prime Minister as frequently as he used to pointing out the possibility of a an eminent fallout.

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