Matiang’i blamed for Kisii plum state sackings – Weekly Citizen

The deeply rooted political division among the elected Gusii leaders and professionals from the community could dearly cost the community in the ongoing national coalition succession politics unless the two groups swallow their pride, put their political individual differences aside by jealously mooting and embracing for the unity of the community if it has to remain relevant in the next government to be formed.
Weekly Citizen has established that majority of the elected leaders mainly members of parliament, senators, governors and members of the county assemblies have split the community apart from being busy championing for their selfish and individual political ambitions and witchhunting their political rivals at the expense of the unity of the community which could propel it to get bigger positions in national politics.
While elected leaders from other communities were busy laying strategies on how to be in the next government, those from the Gusii region were busy mudslinging one another over petty individual issues, and being used by outsiders to divide the community further just for the sake of their stomachs and for handouts.

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The disunity of the leaders has resulted to the senior officers working in the national government from the region being bolted out without having anyone coming out to their protection.
Some of the senior officers affected include former managing director of Kenya Ports Authority Daniel Manduku and Charles Ongwae of Kenya Bureau of Standards.
North Mugirango MP Joash Nyamoko said indeed it is true that it has become extremely impossible to unite the elected leaders when it comes to the discussions centering on unity of the community and championing for matters of national importance affecting the community because of egocentricity, jealous, mistrust and poverty among them, factors he said were detrimental to the unity, development and national politics of the community.
He particularly took issue with the Interior cabinet secretary Fred Matiang’i, governors John Nyagarama (Nyamira) and James Ongwae (Kisii) who are the leading political lights from the community, for failing to call for a leaders’ meeting geared at uniting the community.

“I want to tell some of our colleagues like Ben Momanyi (Borabu), Richard Onyonka (Kitutu Chache South), Samuel Arama (Nakuru Town West) and Jimmy Angwenyi (Kitutu Chache North) to stop misleading Matiang’i that some of us are against the unity of the Kisii community, and him being the community’s political kingpin when it comes to national politics” he said.
He claimed that chase for handouts from Matiangi by some of his colleagues were a stumbling block to the unity of the community arguing that should there be unity of purpose they could loss such handouts.
He also challenged Matiang’i to make use of his position just like what the ODM leader Raila Odinga is doing in making sure that he has brought and influenced development in Gusii region like what the Kisii county senator Prof Sam Ongeri did when he was a cabinet minister during the tenure of president Mwai Kibaki and the late president Daniel Moi.