Wajir MCAs speaking to journalists outside the County Assembly on Saturday. - See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/wajir-mcas-condemn-petition-filed-senate-against-county-over-graft#sthash.ZhBPKdXn.dpuf
Wajir MCAs speaking to journalists outside the County Assembly on Saturday.
Monday, May 25, 2015
Members of Wajir County Assembly have dismissed a petition filed at the senate by a group calling itself the Wajir Anti-Corruption Forum. Speaking at the assembly chambers in Wajir town on Saturday, the ward representatives condemned the chairman of Wajir Anti-corruption Forum Mohamed Abikar and his team calling them idlers.
Wajir County Assembly majority leader Mohamed Muhumed said the group has been busy trying to discredit the County and have even been calling for the county to be dissolved for the last one year. “Mohamed Abikar and his team are known political brokers for hire. In 2002 he was used by politicians to initiate a lobby against President Uhuru Kenyatta when he contested for the Presidency. Abikar chaired that fake lobby called “Operation Anti Uhuru- OAU,” alleged Mohamed.
The MCAs called on the group to present their grievances at the county assembly if they have genuine complaints against the executive. “We know the two politicians who are using these brokers to file what they are purporting to be a petition at the senate. Their interest is to arm - twist both the assembly and the executive of this county, but we will not allow them to practice their extortion habits which they are known to do at the national level in Wajir,” said Yunis Hudow, Malkagufu MCA.
Elsewhere, over thirty elders from different sub - counties in Wajir have today condemned the petittion filled at the Senate by members of Wajir Anti-Corruption Forum. Led by former Buder councillor Ibrahim Sheikh Omar, the elders claimed those behind the pettition are enemies of Wajir County.
"The fact that they want only development funds not to be released to the county is a clear indication that these guys want to sabotage the ongoing development projects in the county such as the tamarc roads, " said Mzee Ibrahim. "Today if you vissit Wajir town, you find construction works ongoing in every part of this town, and we feel some politicians are envious that this project is executed by our able governor and that is why they want development funds frozen," added Mzee Dukow.