KENYA: SCORE OF PEOPLE INJURED FOLLOWING THE FIGHTING FOR THE COMPOSITION OF SEME CONSTITUENCY CDF LOCAL DISBURSING COMMITTEE.

Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City

Scores of people sustained minor bodily injuries following the fighting which broke out at Manywanda health centre in Seme West Location where the local had gathered to install the new CDF disbursing committee.

Unconfirmed report from the area say, the area MP Dr. James Nyikal left the fighting venue with the torn up long trouser following the fighting which last for close to six hours.

Seme is one of the newly newly created parliamentary constituencies within the Kisumu County having been hived from the old Kisumu Rural constituency whose representative in the 11th parliament was the now ailing Prof. Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o

The Mp had fronted a senior lecturer at the Bondo University to be the new CDF local committee chairman, something which did not please the locals. The security were present mainly the APs, but did not intervene in separating the combatants who were consisting mainly of the ODM youth

The MP left the vanue of the melee quickly and the local people installed the new committee of their own choice after vehemently opposing the one proposed and fronted by the area MP.

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