Ruth Adhiambo OdingaINDIGENEOUS residents of Kisumu County have voiced concern over the just concluded ODM grass root and County branch elections accusing the younger sister of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga of practicing nepotism by importing her relative from their Bondo homearea to come and grab various elective positions within the County.
Ruth Adhiambo Odinga, who is the marketing director of the Odinga’s family business flagship, Spectra International, which is managing Kisumu Molasses plant is said to have taken an active part in the elections in the Kisumu Town West constituency sub-branch and in the Kisumu County ODM branch elections which was held at the Tom Mboya Labour College, specifically to ensure that only her relatives were elected in positions of influence.
It is being claimed that she made sure that only people whose homes are located within the Odinga family Bondo home area were elected into two key important positions in Kisumu ODM County branch.
Dave Okwatch a native of the Odinga’s Sakwa Bondo home backyard was propelled by Adhiambo to win the Kisumu County branch of the ODM, while Mrs Rosa Buyu also an indignant of Bondo was imposed on women to become the chairperson of ODM branch in Kisumu County.
It is further being alleged that Odinga family has always made sure that Okwatch is always planted in as an ODM nominated Councilor in the Kisumu Municipality despite the fact that he had no grass root support in the region, apart from doing errand job for the family.
The matter has since elicited bitter complaints and allegation that the Odingas were out to marginalized the Luos by denying them their democratic birth rights.
Ruth Adhiambo Odinga herself is eying the position of governor for Kisumu County while Rosa Buyu born in Sakwa Bondo, but married to a man from Kisumo Location in Kisumu is said to be eying the Kisumu Town West parliamentary seat, which she contested in 2007,but lost narrowly to the incumbent Olago Aluoch who beat her during the ODM preliminaries, but she crossed over to Narc whose ticket she used in contesting the election proper against the ODM official candidate.
Meanwhile the race for Kisumu governor position party is slowly picking up and it favor the Mumias Sugar Company Marketing and Sales Director Peter Hongo who has also declared his interest in the powerful regional position.
His other credible challengers include an Insurance guru in Kisumu Simon Ogendo, former executive with the KRA Jack Ranguma, a Nairobi businessman Tom Otieno Alila, another Nairobi business executive with the Microsoft International Luis Otieno Ogingo, all of them indigenous people of Kisumu County.
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