Category: Opinion

Former Governor Jack Ranguma ‘s Daunting Task as he Seeks to Dethrone Professor Anyang’ Nyong’o as Kisumu County Boss

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With the 2022 General elections barely two years away, the battle-lines appear to have been drawn in Kisumu County. Former Kisumu Governor Jack Ranguma has declared that he will seek to recapture the top seat he lost to former Senator Professor Anyang’ Nyong’o in a highly disputed 2017 elections. Despite contesting the election results and arguing that there existed numerous election irregularities, Professor Nyongo’ carried the day, and he was sworn in as Kisumu Governor. According to Ranguma, the electoral system had been manipulated to increase his opponent’s votes by…

Will the Handshake, Mega Projects and Uhuru’s Visits to Kisumu Translate Into Raila Odinga’s Presidency in 2022?

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While millions of Kenyans have been pannel-beaten into viewing the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) as the solution to the country’s political and economic crisis, residents of Kisumu have a very different perspective to the Raila-Uhuru led strategy. For the vast majority of “Lake Victorians” and the wider Luo Nyanza constituency, BBI project is intertwined with massive development projects. For them, BBI is the ultimate signal that the decades-old political and economic marginalization of Nyanza province since flag independence is finally coming to an end. Indeed, when President Uhuru Kenyatta paid…