Bungoma Governor Ken Lusaka. [Photo/newsupdates]

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Bungoma Governor Ken Lusaka has dismissed a human rights group’s list that placed him among 20 leaders who should be barred from August elections over integrity issues.

Lusaka assured his supporters that he will be on the ballot come August 8, despite attempts to label him as corrupt.

He described the reports as ‘propaganda’ being peddled by his rivals to make him to be barred from vying.

“There are a number of human rights groups who are depending on rumours and malice to think that they will stop me from appearing on the ballot. Let them be told that theirs are efforts in futility…they have got no water tight evidence to prove their allegations,” he said, as reported by The Nation.

He dismissed the report as cheap political witch-hunt by his opponents who are using the activists to distract him from his core duty of providing services to the people.

The governor’s administration was on the spot after it emerged that they allegedly purchased one wheelbarrow at Sh1 million for a slaughter house.