Nominated Cord Senator Janet Ong'era has asked the Kisii County government to stop ‘grabbing’ land belonging to Nubia Community living in the county.
The Senator said this during donation of a wheelchair to Hawa Zingidura Ali, a diabetic who has been battling with the condition for twenty seven years.
Ong’era observed in remarks addressed to the media that the Nubia community had been discriminated against in the County Assembly adding that no slot had been allocated to them despite the fact that they are the largest ethnic minority group in the region.
The Nubia Community has been residing in the suburb named after their ethnic name, Nubia, since the colonial period.
Ong'era also claimed that members of the community had been overlooked in job appointments by the county Public Service Board, and said such had contributed to levels of high levels of poverty and disenchantment.
She also claimed that land belonging to some community members had been grabbed by some influential Kisii businessmen, saying that this was a source of further cause for concern among the Nubia community.
"The Nubia pepole have had this land for more than half a century, we wonder where these people claiming to be the new owners of the piece land got it from," said Senator Ong’era.
She appealed to the county government through Governor James Ongwae to take urgent measures to curtail the vice.
Hawa Zingidura Ali, while thanking the Senator for the wheelchair and financial assistance, described the experience of battling diabetes, which has resulted into the amputation of her left leg, as extremely trying and distressing for her, saying it had put considerable emotional and financial constrains on her family members who are responsible for her care in terms of paying hospital bills to manage the condition.