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WITH threats of moving to court over the Matungu by election, ODM Deputy party Leader Governor Whycliffe Oparanya has stirred a bee hive. Leaders drawn from across Matungu have said they will defend MP Honourable Peter Oscar Nabulindo and promised to reject all candidates supported by the governor on ODM in subsequent elections. Speaking at a quickly convened press conference at Bulimbo catholic grounds, the elders drawn from the populous Abashitsetse, abakolwe and Abamutiru sub clans vowed to teach Governor Oparanya "another political lesson" "We have listened keenly to threats by ODM party and by extention Governor Oparanya that they have a plot to challange the win of our MP, we are not afraid, we will wait for him to make good his threat because we are ready" Said Rafael Osundwa. "Oparanya appears not tired of wanting to impose an MP on us, we rejected David Were who was his project and he is still determined, let him come on". Said Osundwa. Elder Osun

Story by Joel Eshikumo and Douglas Dindi Kakamega governor Wycliffe Oparanya is reportedly planning to abandon his deputy Prof. Philip Kutima as the quest to succeed him gains momentum both at the political party and government levels. Oparanya reportedly told confidants during a private session with county contractors who supported the ODM campaigns in the Matungu by-election last month that Prof Kutima was a weak candidate who cannot guarantee a win for the 2022 Kakamega gubernatorial contest. The meeting held in the lakeside city of Kisumu to preview the ODM performance in the county after the by-election debacle discussed the alleged “insignificant’ role played by Prof. Kutima in the by-election campaigns and the budding threat of ANC Kakamega senator Cleophas Malala. Asked by his audience for an opinion on the potency of ODM candidates seeking the county seats in the next election, the governor Oparanya reportedly vouched for his Youth, Sports, culture and social servi

Police in Kakamega have recovered a firearm that was allegedly stolen on Saturday from Joseph Manyasa Andeso, a bodyguard attached to Governor Wycliffe Oparanya. According to a police report, the Ceska pistol loaded with 14 rounds of ammunition, was recovered from the home of Kakamega County enforcement officer Robinson Wanzala Mandu.  Wanzala was arrested after he led officers to his home, where he had allegedly buried the missing firearm in a shallow hole in a banana plantation near his compound.  The gun was found wrapped in a plastic paper bag. “The scene was carefully dug and a Ceska pistol of serial number KE KP F2024 loaded with 14 rounds of 9mm ammunition recovered.  The said firearm had been wrapped in a plastic paper bag,” a statement released on Sunday night by police in Kakamega reads in part. In the report seen by one of the Media group dated March 20, 2021, Manyasa told police at Harambee Police Station that he was at Finito bar at Harambee market and was join

Report By Emanuel Vigusa in Vihiga.  VIHIGA County Executive Committee Member Nominee for the department of Environment and Natural Resources Mary Amalemba made a fool of herself when she appeared before a vetting  Committee on Appointments. Ms Amalemba arrived at the County Assembly smartly dressed and ready for vetting, but when she was eventually invited to meet the panel, a session that was supposed to be serious turned sympathetic for the woman from Hamisi Sub County. She presented to the panel her national ID and photocopies of her Class Eight and Form Four certificates, much to the shock of the committee members who expected her to come armed with all her education papers including the mandatory degree certificate required to be a CEC. Earlier, Vihiga activists had challenged her nomination on the basis of the fact that she doesn’t have a degree(even Great Lakes University could not ascertain if she was a student there) and when she appeared before the committee she

Vihiga Governor Wilbur Otichilo.  By Joel Eshikumo - Investigative journalist . In this 35-point blow by blow summary dubbed the ‘ Untold Truth ', we detail how Vihiga County may never recover after being destroyed to the core by Governor Wilbur Ottichilo. Following the highly publicised County Address delivered by Governor Wilber Ottichilo on Friday, December 18, 2020 from 10:00am, Eshikumo2030 sought to highlight what was not be addressed in the speech. We interrogated officers from the government, and former County Secretary Francis Ominde, who helped reveal a list of some of the rot in the county so that people can have a glimpse of what it looks like. “If we do not rise up now and demand accountability, our County may be wound down. Those who are aspiring to run for Governorship in 2022 may not have a Government to look forward to if they don’t act now,” Mr Ominde said. Below are the 35 ways the county has been raped: 1. The County siphons between Sh30million to

Story By Joel Eshikumo.  KAKAMEGA Senator Cleophas Malala and seven others including his body guard were today charged with several counts or robbery with violence. The counts included malicious damage of property, molestation, misuse of a firearm. Bellow are the chargesheet obtained by thus blog. In Kenyan law, robbery with violence guilt attracts life imprisonment. 

ANC Leader Musalia Mudavadi leads MPs in the Requim Mass of the late Matungu MP Justus Murunga in Nairobi. FORMER Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero last week released Ksh 18M to ODM Deputy party Leader Whycliffe Oparanya to go towards attempt to endear himself to ODM party Leader Raila Odinga, Former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero wants to shoulder the financial burden of Matungu ODM candidate. Sources have disclosed that, high profile meetings between the EX Mumias Sugar CEO Evans Kidero, ODM Leader Raila ODINGA, Former MP David Were and several ODM MCAs has resolved so.  The highly placed source told this blog that in that line, Kidero who appears to have fallen out of favor with Raila Odinga is in a strategy to revamp himself towards 2022 elections.  We learnt that Two MCAs who hope to contest the seat in 2022, had been busy lobbying to have "a weak" candidate take over for the remainder of the period before he is dislodged by any of them in 2022. Inside information