Fistfights and insults characterized the Kisumu County Assembly session on Tuesday afternoon as a section of Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) got entangled in ugly confrontations.
Trouble started after a section of MCAs got information that Kolwa East MCA Steve Owiti had been ‘removed’ from his position as Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, and replaced by Central Kisumu MCA Judith Atieno Ogaga.
County Assembly leader of the Majority Kenneth Onyango said the move was unprocedural as she was sworn in without elections having been carried out by the budget committee.
“We got in the order paper that one of the Members of the budget committee one honourable Judith Ogaga was to be sworn in. She is being sworn in without elections having been carried out by the budget committee,” lamented Onyango.
“She is being sworn in without giving the chair of the budget committee an opportunity to defend himself for whatever ills he may have committed. We feel this is unprocedural and we cannot continue along this direction forever,” he added.
MCA Ogaga was finally sworn in after matters cooled down.
Kolwa East MCA Steve Owiti claimed that County Speaker George Onyango Oloo initiated his removal from the Committee after he declined to allocate Shs 200 million for the construction of the Speaker’s official residence.
“We cannot approve a wallowing Shs 200 million to be used in constructing the Speaker’s official residence. We also refused to allocate a wallowing Shs 800 million to be used in building an assembly,” he said.
Kisumu MCAs have been labelled by some of the residents as very notorious for being violent and rowdy in the assembly.
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