By Chak Rachar

RESIDENTS of Kisumu County are up in arms against their Governor Jack Ranguma and her Deputy Ruth Odinga for allowing goons to invade their offices under the guise of dubious titles.

Some of the goons call themselves communication officers, assistants, transport officers and consultants together with security officers yet such titles do not exist in the devolved county government structure.

The idlers have been seen harassing visitors and asking dignitaries who they are, eye brows have now been raised by local people over the many individuals who have invaded the county offices with glee.

The idlers have been hovering around the offices and corridors of their offices under the guise of being their Personal Assistants, technocrats and advisers.

A spot check within the offices of the said duo shows that political rejectees’ and hoodlums, idlers, party activists and regular hanger on within the Lake side city who are usually a common site within the Lakeside City have found a safe haven in the corridors of the said duo’s offices where they idle and gossip at the visitors area as they read past editions of the newspapers.

The assigned workers are demoralized at the goings on there and have appealed to the authorities concerned to urgently look at the matter if the dignity and integrity of the governor is to be protected.

“We are unable to do our work in this office as this busy bodies and hanger on flocks these two offices under the guise of being the governor’s Personal Assistants, Consultant, Advisors, Sympathizers etc etc, we surely can’t work and its usually an eyesore in the eyes of the visitors when they come here as at times they usually trade insulting words in the full of the visitors, surely there is need for something done to be done “said a County employee who never wanted to be quoted.

The most notorious one is a former Councillor from Kajulu who goes with many titles as; Governor’s adviser, strategist, informer and head of Protocol who is said to be desperately looking for attention from the Governor and ends up causing embarrassing scenes for him.

Another eyesore at the said two offices is a one time correspondent with a daily newspaper who was sacked for ineptness The former corespondent portrays himself as a media consultant yet his employer ceased taking his stories after discovering that he could not even construct a single sentence in English.

He was initially in his home town of Awendo and his relocation to Kisumu was made possible by a senior editor who was recently sacked from The Standard newspapers Oketch Kendo.

Then there is a wife of one time luo MP who wears tight long trousers like an adolescent and swaggers her hips left ,right and centre as if on a seductive sprees plus other ten idle women who have thick make ups and use cheap perfumes which usually suffocates visitors to the Governor’s office.

The group which totals to almost twenty are said to be hiring private vehicles which the County idlers use to follow the two everywhere where they leave hell of destructions and embarrassments as witnessed in most formal and informal meetings where they always fight for free foods and beers to the chagrin of the meeting attendees.

“Its high time senility is brought in these two offices otherwise these hanger-on and busy bodies will create more and embarrassment to the two offices, how comes only in Kisumu is such a thing allowed, you can’t see the same in Mombasa,Eldoret or Nakuru” lamented one County Assembly Rep.

The situation is so bad that if not checked properly will make Kisumu County Governor’s office look like a social club and not a service delivery office.

What is amazing is that most of the goons are in one way or the other related to political rejects who lost at the last general elections.