Kisumu County Governor Jack Ranguma has been given 90 days to find an alternative office or start paying rent for their offices at Prosperity House.
Nyanza Regional Commissioner Francis Mutie said he wrote a confidential letter to the Governor on September, but Ranguma chose to castigate him without replying his letter.
“I wrote the letter to him on orders from the Principal Secretary for Interior and Coordination. Instead of replying the letter, the Governor chooses to talk ill about me,” he said.
Over the weekend in Siaya County, Ranguma said he will not vacate the office and asked the government to scrap off the position of regional commissioners.
Ranguma said regional commissioners have no role noting that the high wage bill can be addressed through scrapping such offices.
Mutie explained that the two-year transition period that had been given to governors had expired and the Kisumu governor ought to have constructed the county headquarters.
He said the governor was given one floor to set up his office and that of his staff but now they have already occupied four floors without any approval from the National Government.
Speaking to the press in Kisumu on Monday, Mutie said he respects the governor but will not let National Government property to be taken over by the county.
On his role, Mutie said he is busier than before devolution taken over noting that he is coordinating a cluster of six counties and more within Western Kenya region.
He claims to have knowledge of a host of issues around the county government of Kisumu and if pushed to the wall he would reveal them.
“I am an investigator and I know a lot of things in this county, if I am pushed, I will reveal,” he threatened.