BY JEFF OTIENO IN KISUMU
Alego Usonga MP Edwin Yinda was recently ejected from his seat during the burial of the son of the public service minister Dalmas Otieno in Rongo.
The beleagured legislator who was clad in his customery casual attire was ejected from his chair by a lady usher who could not link his position with the kind of dressing style he had for the occasion.
”Excuse me gentleman,you are sitted in a wrong place,this area is reserved for MPs,ministers and their assistants only,who are you?”the usher gloated.
It took the quick intervention of one of the ushers who unsuccesfully contested the Rongo parliamentary seat in the last general elections to bring sanity.
Yinda who looked shocked and bittter thundered to the lady that he was a parliamentarian and therefore he had the moral authority to sit where he was.
The legislator who is of late being accused by his constituents and admirers to be practicing an ivory tower kind of politics is currently working a tight political rope.
He is among a clique of ODM brigades who are agitating for the formation of the grand opposition in parliament a stance which has sparked fury from the prime minister Raila Odinga together with the party’s fanatics who view him as a betrayor and a sell-out.
Recently in one of the airports in Kenya,he was overheard thundering that he paid dearly for his election and therefore he owes nobody an apology.
ENDS.
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 01:08:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: JEFF OTIENO
Subject: MP HUMILIATED DURING BURIAL CEREMONY.
This is pure lie, I was with my our MP at the burial nothing like this happened.
Our MP is not in any anyway associated to grand opposition or against the ODM leader.
Omera Ja-Kano we kwecho kod kalam. By the way, where is your brother Chali Aguko ? He is still in politics in Nyando ?
Onyango-Ja-Boro
ODM-Activists Alego-Usonga
The reception Yinda got at the funeral is not surprising. In any case our so called leaders are only interested in fame.
We should stop electing MPs simply because they have money or should I say resources!! Yinda seems to have wanted to go to Parliament and he indeed made it. But I wonder whether he had an agenda for his constitutents!! He will have to work overtime to convice people like me that he will make a difference in Alego.
There is no big issue. It was just a mistake by the usher who didn’t know my MP. It would only be an issue if they all know the same and still eject him from the seat.