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By Jakisumo Jakorando.
Six Councillors were recently physically and ruthlessly ejected from a regional conference in Kamplaa Uganda after the organizers of the said meeting said that they could only recognize and cater for the two Councilors out of the eight from Kisumu City Council.
The eyesore incident saw the councilors (names withheld) being physically ejected from the hall of the said meeting after they forced their way despite being denied registration at the desk as the organizers had said that already two Kenyan Councilors were in the hall and the other six were unwanted.
“It has come to our attention that Kisumu city Council has sent eight councilors here, however we had indicated in our letter that we only needed two from the council, will the six who were denied registration humbly walk out as the seats they presently occupy is for other delegates “the master of ceremony announced to the utter dismay of the delegates before the first day of the five days of the seminar began.
Known for their mediocrity, the six Councilors then engaged the organizers in argument which resulted to their being thrown out by the security.
Now some section of Councillors is demanding an explanation from Kisumu Clerk David Nkere to surcharge the six Councillors after they spent the six days roaming in the streets of Kampala.
“They must be made to refund all the money they took for the entire duration they were in Kampala yet from the onset the organizers said they were only aware of the two” one Councillor who never want his name mentioned said.
He added that presently the LATIF account is empty due to such unwarranted trips and demands that such cease forthwith.
“Contractors of LATIF projects are not being paid because the money meant for them is being given to “political correct Councilors” who sing to the mayor’s tune” he lamented.
Contacted, the Clerk to the Council David Ole Nkere denied any knowledge of the said incident
Meanwhile, Kisumu Mayor Sam Okello has been put on the notice and dared to surrender any council houses to any parastatal in lieu of the debts it owes them after failure to remit statutory deductions.
The councilors are accusing the Mayor together with the clerk of telling Local Authority Provident Fund of settling their debts by giving them one of the residential estates still in the possession of the council.
The council’s Chairman of Staff and Establishment Committee Robert Otuge and her Joint staff Counterpart Pamella Omino “Pam Jos” has told the Mayor to delete such thoughts from his mind.
“He is getting into something that he quiet well knows that is not possible, presently workers are being paid net pay with no statutory deductions, now if the give out that then what will National Social Security Fund and National Hospital Insurance Fund be given, the Council offices?”Otuge poised.
Omino agreed saying that it will require areal tall order to reach what the Mayor wants to do,he warns the him to tread carefully as history might judge him otherwise.
Efforts to reach the Mayor were fruitless as he did not pick his call neither did he reply out sim card messeges
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