KISUMU WOMEN REP OFFICE FORGES PATNERSHIP BETWEEN WOMEN AND CHASE BANK

BY OMARI AKELLO
KENYAN Parliamentary Committee has vowed to stage a strong pressure on the government as it calls on the twin government to quickly revamp key industries that have remained defunct for a long time.

The Finance, Planning and Trade Committee made the resolution after the conclusion of a three day fact finding mission which saw the Committee toured three chief industries in Nyanza Province, Western and Rift valley province.
The Committee lead by its Chairman Benjamin Langat visited troubled Kicomi in Kisumu, Rivatex in Eldoret and Pan Paper Mills in Webuye.
Speaking to the press in Kisumu town after the conclusion of the tour, Kisumu County Women rep and a member of the Committee Mrs. Rose Nyamunga noted that the revival of the textile factories will help to create more jobs for Kenyans.
Nyamunga said that in their report to the government the Committee has recommended the implementation of policies that will support the government plans on the revival of the firms.
Other MPs in the team were Shakeel Shabir, Oburu Odinga and Andrew Toboso among others.
Elsewhere Nyamunga revealed that her office has forged a partnership between top cream businesswomen drawn from the County and the Chase Bank with an aim of boosting development in the region.

The over 200 women under the Umbrella, Kisumu County Women business Association is set to meet its partner, Chase Bank and other stakeholders on Friday.
‘My office is committed to making a difference in the lives of Women, youth and people with disabilities through various projects such as capacity building, table banking, poultry keeping, Dairy cows, goat keeping, provision of clean drinking water, Agribusiness and environmental conservation through tree nurseries for trees and fruits’’, added Nyamunga.

KISUMU COUNTY WOMEN REP NYAMUNGA URGES WOMEN AND YOUTH TO FORM SACCOs

 BY OMARI AKELLO

Kisumu County women  representative Rose Nyamunga now hots up her drive to ensure that Women and Youth groups in Nyanza province operate under SACCO umbrellas.

In the past few weeks Nyamunga has criss-crossed the region with her team  educating locals on the benefit of forming SACCOs.

She kicked off the drive at Ojola in Kisumu County and has managed to visit several other places including Seme,Nyando and Nyakach.



Recently, Nyamunga told boda boda operators and those in the matatu sector in the region to embrace the idea noting that it has worked well in other areas across the country.

Speaking after presiding over a funds drive to over 200 boda boda operators at Ojola Kisumu County, Nyamunga said she was ready to exploit her position in ensuring that Youths in the region realize full development through SACCOs.

And while speaking in a separate meeting in a Kisumu hotel where women from the region were train women on how to access and handle Uwezo funds, Nyamunga urged the beneficiaries not to divert the funds to other avenues but to channel it to the intended purposes.


She said Uwezo fund was all round friendly unlike other lenders with the history of harassing their beneficiaries despite the high interest rate slapped on them.

Nyamunga pledged that immediately after the women benefited from the Uwezo fund she would introduce fish farming projects across the county and would ensure that every village prospers in every project they have identified.  

TENSION AT KISUMU POLICE STATION AS JUNIOR OFFICERS PROTEST OCS TRANFER

 BY JARED OPIYO
TENSION has gripped troubled Kisumu police Station as junior officers resort to a go slow in protest of a surprise transfer of the OCS who exits the office in less than six months after he was posted to tackle sky-rocketed crime in the region.

Traders in Kisumu have at the same time threatened to stage a demonstration demanding for OSC John Mutui’s transfer cancellation after it emerged that Kisumu graft lords are behind the development.

Questions lingering among the junior officers in Kisumu and at vigilant house in the capital Nairobi, demand for an explanation on why the OSC becomes the target for transfer despite his remarkable work that has seen a drastic decline of insecurity in the region.

Before his transfer to Kisumu, insecurity was evidently the order of the day at the lake side City as the security team, ostensibly pocketed by petty criminals and their high-end counterparts involving the filthy rich Indians, loudly slept on the job.

Police sources have indicated that the OCS as been tabled as a sacrifice lamb in a transfer that initially targeted senior police officers including the PCIO and the provincial Commander who have been roundly accused of collecting protection fee from the Indian business community and other criminals, including those in the infamous ‘’wash wash’’ business.

The area DCIO has also been prominently mentioned as one of the rogue police officers stuck in the web of Indian cartels.

The DCIO and his County boss are still fighting revelation that an Indian in Car trade bribed them with one car each in attempt to conceal his illegal activities.

The young millionaire, proprietor of RANA motors, is also rumoured to be engaged in drug business and most recently was taken to court by his business rival following bizarre discovery that he had imported over 200 vehicles using his rival’s company name in a bid to dodge tax.

It’s against this background that the senior officers in the region made a resolution to ‘’destroy’’ anyone seen to be spoiling the party.

Since his first day at the office as the Kisumu OSC, Mutui has been hailed by locals who are happy by his ways of operation as opposed to his predecessor who spent most of his times in local pubs instead of fighting crime.

His predecessor frequent absence from the station worked well for those in cahoots with criminals as he was only informed of the loots in the pubs as opposed to Mutui who maintained hawk-eye on every activity at the station apart from distancing himself from the group that takes bribes.

KISUMU COUNTY SET TO DEMOLISH ILLEGAL STRUCTURES ALONG THE ROADS

BY OMARI AKELLO

KISUMU county government has issued an order calling for the demolishing of illegal structures in major towns across the county.

Speaking to journalist in his office today, roads minister Eng. Kodera said the county government was geared up to effect the order in a programme aimed at face-lifting the lake side City and other towns within the county.

Eng. Kodera said this was the last warning from his office to those traders still operating under illegal structure adding that his office has in the past issued several similar warnings but which have been ignored by the traders.

Among the notably markets likely to be affected by the order are Kisumu, Maseno,Mamboleo, Kibos,Kolweny, Ahero and Akala.

The roads minister appealed with the affected traders to cooperate with the directive which will equally see an improved working condition. 

Kodera at the same time revealed that his ministries will soon embark on roads inspection as it prepares to pay contractors who participated in the project.

He however warned that should the inspection reveal shoddy work, then the culprit contractors will be forced to go back to the job.

Locals have however showered with praises Eng.Kodera for the improved road network across the county.

KISUMU POLICE RENEWS WAR AGAINST CITY RED BLOODED GANGSTER AKA BOY

 BY JARED OPIYO

POLICE in Kisumu have renewed war against criminals at the Lake side City after a red blooded gangster issued death threats to several people including his former group members and a journalist.

Kisumu OCS has maintained that his office will exploit every available resources to ensure that peace prevails in the volatile  city that has frequently witnessed deadly war pitting criminal gangs.

The officer made the remarks few hours after the dramatic arrest of  two known criminals believed to be operating under a notorious city gangster after the duo trailed a journalist, Mr. Omari Akello and issued him death threats.

The two criminals were immediately arrested and  booked at the central police station and were only released on bond to report to the CID on Tuesday after one of them sensationally confessed that  they received funds from the gang leader Mr. Willis Akoth aka Boy with instruction to eliminate the journalist and other key members of the infamous  China Squad.

Akoth aka Boy remained the China Squad de facto chairman until recently when members unanimously ganged up  to support his ejection from the group after it emerged that he was a top city criminal who was only painting the group in a bad picture.

It's after the unceremonious ouster from the group that  gangster whose street name is Boy has remained a wounded man struggling to front a lousy gang of three , currently under his command, to threaten his former friends turned foes.

There was a stampede at the Kisumu police station when after the arrest of the two criminals who had earlier attacked the journalist,  the evidently drunk Boy, stormed the police station and issued more death threats to the helpless journalist before he demanded for the release of his men.

His actions were however met with rude shock after the police stood their grounds and locked the two suspects who later pleaded with the journalist before they made a confession to the effect that they were under orders from Boy.

DRAMA AS KISUMU WANTED GANG LEADER TAKES ON HIS HEELS

 BY JARED OPIYO

DRAMA unfolded in Kisumu last week when a former member of a youth group dubbed China Squad was forced to take on his heels after the group members descended on him with kicks and blows.

The former gang leader Boy Akoth made an impromptu visit at the China Squad base, accompanied by two heavily built men before he demanded for his reinstatement as the group’s chairman.

His demand however elicited strong resistance from the other members leading to a heated debate prompting the former leader to ask his body guards to swing into action.

Instead the Boy and his two body guards were quickly subdued by the irate China Squad members who ordered them to sit down on the ground and roughed them up before they dramatically took on their heels leaving traders and other passer -bys who witnessed the event in stitches.

According to the members, a resolution to eject Boy was reached at afew months back after it emerged that he was associated with criminal activities in and within Kisumu compounded with the fact that he swindled the group’s money.

After his unceremonious ouster from the group widely associated with the ruling coalition’s senior partner TNA, Boy according to privy sources has remained a wounded man who has been issuing death threats to his friends turned foes.

Records also indicate that he’s one of those in the police watch list in regards to insecurity at the lake side city after his name was prominently mentioned as one of those deadly gangsters in position of illegal firearms.

In one incident police officers guarding Kisumu Commercial Bank were forced to cock their guns after the notorious Boy and his gang members attacked a journalist, Mr. Omari Akello accusing him of taking to the press his criminal activities.

The Tuesday incident surprised the police officer when the gang members attempted to attack the scribe in their presence.

Matters were only solved after the journalist who was accompanied by a colleague from the Lake Star Newspaper, Dickson Odhiambo managed to convince the police to set them free after the gang pleaded with the same journalist they attacked.

China Squad came into limelight a head of last general elections after it engaged another rival group American Marine into a supremacy war.

‘We are not gangsters and that’s the same reason we had to eject Boy out of the group…because he has gangster mentality as opposed to our ideologies which are majorly based op peace and development’’, said other China members.

KISUMU RESIDENTS HAIL WOMEN REP NYAMUNGA FOR GOOD WORK

 BY OMARI AKELLO

RESIDENTS of Kisumu County have hailed the area women representative Rose Nyamunga for her development track that has improved voters living standards.

Nyamunga from the time of her election has trained her eyes on numerous projects in the region including table banking among women.

Other projects include Kisumu County grass roots revolving funds,poultry farming where hatcheries have been brought on the ground,dairy farming, fish farming among other projects.

Hatcheries will be used to supply chicks to the interested groups with the hope of giving them full economic empowerment.

Nyamunga revealed that her office will be at the forefront in ensuring that products from the farmers are well marketed.

Currently a number of fish ponds are ready across the County as the farmers wait for fingerlings to take the fishing project to a number.