Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kapsabet Town

DISCONTENT is high in the north rift part of the expansive Rift Valley Province following the allegation and accusations that the Deputy President William Ruto had influenced the nominations and elections to the plum position within the jubilee alliance of his fellow Kipsigis tribesmen at the expense of the indigenous Nandis.

This has now turned the Nandi County into an enclave of the Kipsigis. All the plum elective positions went to the Kipsigis aspirants. These position included that of the County Senator and that of the governor, leaving the Nandis with nothing to take home, retorted Joshua Kiplimoa, Kapsabet politician.

The Nandi County is covering several parliamentary constituencies, which included Aldai, Emngwen, Tinderet,Mosop. There are two other coveted and lucrative position, that of County governor and that of Senate, said Mr. Kiplimo.

The newly elected Senator for the area is Stephen Sang who is a Kipsigis by blood. And so is the Nandi County Senator Stephen Sang, Nandi Hills MP Afred Keter is also a man of Kipsigis by blood. The MP for Kapsaret Hon Sudi In Uasin Gishu is also a Kipsigis.

The residents of both North an southern Nandi district have faulted the jubilee alliance for having given the preferences to the people with the Kipsigis blood, and as such have short-caned the indignant Nandis.

William Ruto himself is a man of mixed blood between the Kipsigis and the Nandis. His family had migrate fro Kiptere / Sosiot area of upper Belgut and have settled in Nandi many years, but later moved further to the Uasi Gishu County after Kenya had attained its political independence in 1963.

The Nandi elders further decried the importation of Kiposigis people from Kericho and Bomet Counties in the South Rift by William Ruto and giving them plum political appointments at the expense of the Nandis.

A resident of Nandi Hills claimed that even most of the County representatives in the entire region were carefully chosen from people with Kipsigis blood relations.

The scheme was hatched by Ruto and his henchmen

Ruto and his protégés and even extended to areas further interior like West and East Pokot, Cheranganyi, Tran-Nzoia an other places. This is a modern day tribal discrimination, said Mr John Chepkuony, of a son in Kericho.

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