Writes Our Staff Reporter

A parliamentary aspirant in Karachuonyo constituency within Homa-Bay County could face court action before the next March 4, 2013 genera election.

Tom Dolla who is vying for Karachuonyo constituency in Rachuonyo North district is currently under probe for allegedly having grabbed a government house in Kisumu City.

The House which belongs to the Lake Basin Development Authority is located in the posh milimani estate in Kisumu City. Dolla was once an employee of the LBDA, a government parastatal organization.

Sources at the Kisumu based LBDA have hinted that the authority is contemplating suing Mr Dolla for illegal occupation of its house for close to a decade, and that the matter could land the aspirant before a court of law within the net few weeks.

The LBDA want to reclaim and retrieve its property, in which it had no tenancy agreement with the politician despite the latter having occupied it for close to a decade.

Dolla, who is wearing two hats and at one time acting as the ODM REGIONAL OORDINATOR IN Nyanza is among half a dozen of parliamentary aspirants vying the Karachuonyo seat. The incumbent MP is Eng. James K Rege.

Other contestants include the perennial election loser in Karachuonyo Adipo Okuome, a Kisumu dentist Dr.Ofafa Adede, and others.

Information making the round on the ground says the immediate former MP Dr. Paul Adhu has also been campaigning mostly in West Kareachuonyo. However, a check with the ODM headquarters indicated that the former cabinet Minister for Planning during the brief KANU/LDP brief merger under the retired President Daniel Arap Moi Awitihas yet to deposit his nomination fees, though his campaign is said to have already hit the ground.

Karachuonyo is one of the most populous rural constituencies within the Homa-Bay County and residents interviewed were in full praise of eng. Rege the current MP for having restored political sanity in area previously prone to political violence.

Eng. Rege is also being credited for having made use of the CDF and other government devolving funds such as school bursary and road maintenance. The area has realized other development in infrastructure, and this is being attributed by the residents that it is due to the MP’s political magnanimity and dynamism, which has witnesses all the local committee charged with the task of distributing government development funds being handled with credible individual personalities, most of the intellectual and university lecturers. As opposed to the common practice in many constituencies in Luo-Nyanza where CDF steering and disbursement committees are full of semi-illiterate people with no experience in government accounting system .Other committees are filled with MP’s relatives, political cronies.

All the indications are that Eng Rege is on his way to retain his Karachuonyo seat come the March 4, 2013 election. Several other possible contestants who had already declared their interest in the seat appeared to have pulled out one by one living only a handful of aspirants, some of who lacked the track record of development in the area.

ENDS