Writes Leo Odera Omolo.
The Homa-Bay governor Cyprian Otieno Await has earned a lot of praise by the residents of the region for his tireless and concerted effort to empower the youth and women living in the region economically.
The lavish praise for the governor came as a result of his distribution of chewing machines, welding and hair dressing materials to dozens of women and youth groups in Ndhiwa constituency this week.
A Homa-Bay and Nairobi prominent politician cum-businessman Hilary Ochieng’ Alila
A while heaping a lot of praise on the governor for his concerted effort to stamp out poverty among the Wananchi appealed to the MCAs and ODM party of officials and members to give their unqualified support and backing to the governor so that the devolved government in the region could succeed in pushing the development f the region to a higher level . He said all the members of the County executives and deserves praising for working together with the governor in harmony and unity of purpose, adding that the region has a lot of potentialities and a lot of resources whch if used properly could turn the region into the hub of ,massive development.
Alila told this writer during an exclusive interview that other neighboring counties need to learn a lot from Homa-Bay county good governance.
On ODM Alila appealed to the former county branch officials who were recently voted out of office to take a sabbatical leave and vacate their offices in peace so that the new group under the former Rangwe mp Martin Otieno Ogindo could work and harmonize the party activities in the region. He urged the ousted for branch chairman Senator Grald Otieno Kajwang’ to accept the verdict of the ODM members and to stop dirty maneuvers and uncalled for agitation He urged the ousted former branch chairman Senator Gerald Otieno Kajwang’ to accept the people’s.
Alila said he had full confidence in the new branch leadership because they were elected democratically for the p[purpose of resuscitating the hitherto falling apart branch. The new team, Alila said is capable of revitalizing the branch and should start membership drive immediately, and recruit as many members as possible in preparation for the 2017 general election. They should make the party to become the popular vehicle for winning the next elections. It is tie for the leaders with stale idea and those who have run bankrupt of new methods of organizing the party to give room for new ideas to be injected into the p[arty hierarchy, while the deadwoods who have become liability than being assets to the party should step aside honorably because no one is indispensible.
Alila advised the Kasipul MP Oyugi Magwanga to desist from making public pronouncements which are full of confusions over the party new in the region. Leadership. Maguwanga seemed to be uncomfortable with the new county branch officials because of the inclusion of Charles Ong’Ondo Were his arch-rival at the local parliamentary contest in the last general election. But it appeared as if he had forgotten that the new office county branch officials were elected by delegates from all the eight parliamentary constituencies that makes the HOMA-bay a county and not few from his Kasipul backyard therefore he should stop fighting the lost war and accept to work with the rest.
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