| Written by Rosemary Wachiye 2011-11-13 14:24:00 Read 315 Times |  |
Ikolomani MP Dr. Bonny Khalwale shares a word with Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa during a campaign rally in Matulo ward as seat aspirant Grime Juma Wangachi looks on. [Photo|Rosemary Wachiye|West Fm]
New Ford Kenya leaders held a high profiled campaign for its Matulo ward candidate Grime Juma Wangachi in preparation for the November 28 by-election but attacks against the Prime Minister Raila Odinga tool centre stage as the leaders implored him to step aside over Kazi kwa Vijana lost funds.
The NFK brigade pulled large crowds at Khamoto village as it drummed up support for Wangachi where the leaders seized the chance to spill their venom against the premier.
The brigade led by Housing Minister and Malava MP Soita Shitanda, presidential hopeful Eugene Wamalwa, Ikolomani Mp Bonny Khalwale, nominated MP Musikari Kombo and former Budalangi Mp Raphael Wanjala said their candidate was best suited to take over the vacant seat.
Dr. Bonny Khalwale has called upon Matulo residents to come out in large numbers on the Election Day to vote in their Wanngachi for the remaining time before the next general election.
Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa on his part applauded President Kibaki for appointing Isaac Hassan to head the Interim Electoral and Boundary Commission (IEBC).
“The move by the president to appoint the former head of IIEC to head the Interim Electoral and Boundary Commission (IEBC) is welcomed as it is a fair ruling that gives every Kenyan hope on how the next election is going to be fair to all basing on the way he has headed the elections under IIEC,” said Wamalwa.
At the same time, he insisted the Kazi Kwa Vijana funds that were meant to assist the youths who are unemployed ended up in the pockets of some wealthy officials in the Prime Minister’s office and called upon the Prime Minister to take political responsibility for it.
Wamalwa suggested that the structure set for kazi Kwa vijana should be changed and re-designed for the youths to benefit from the program stating that the current system is outdated.
Dr. Khalwale still holds that funds set for Kazi Kwa Vijana initiative were misappropriated and called upon the Prime Minister Raila Odinga to step aside for investigation to be done into the matter.
“I raised this issue in Parliament and I still insist that the funds for Kazi Kwa Vijana need to be accounted for, when I said that Sh.300 Million were misappropriated the Prime Minister in his defense stated that only Sh.108 Million were missing which then his office should account for,” said Khalwale. [Read: Raila dispels allegations KKV money was lost as politics takes center stage in parliament http://westfm.co.ke/mobile/index.php?page=news&id=3779
He said that some of the youths might have been paid but not the amount that was set by World Bank while others were not paid at all hence the initiative was a big failure.
Khalwale also claims that the report released by the Controler and Auditor General states that the money for the state land in Tokyo was missing and called upon the associated parties in the fraud to take responsibility so that justice prevails.
The Minister for Housing Soita Shitanda raised concern over some MPs whom he claim are after convincing the President and the Prime Minister into appointing people from specific parts of the country for jobs in the set commissions leaving out other parts of the country.
“It is very unfair that some leaders always want their people to rule and forget about other parts of the country who also need to be represented, I call upon the president and the Prime Minister not to fall prey of tribalism,” said the minister.
He also has suggested that before one is interrogated over taking a certain post the two principals and the board in charge of the appointment should consider which part of the country the person comes from so that appointments to public office are not tribal.
There are four candidates vying for the Matulo Ward seat on different political parties including Grime Juma for New Ford Kenya, Isaac Welemba of Ford Kenya, Ronald Mukanda of ODM and Kukali Simiyu of National Vision Party (NVP) and therefore the challenge is left for the Matulo ward residents to decide who fits to lead them for the remaining time before the next General Elections in 2012.
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