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Ford People MPs Form Group
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 July 2007 03:30
Speaking to the Nation on the telephone after holding the first parliamentary group meeting, MPs Zepedeo Opore and Jimmy Angwenyi said they would address all the critical issues affecting the people as a group.
They said they would meet and brainstorm on issues affecting any particular constituency.
The leaders said the meeting discussed a wide range of issues, particularly agriculture, which was the mainstay of the Kisii.
The MPs said they had already sought the help of Cabinet ministers Kipruto arap Kirwa (Agriculture and Livestock Development) and Njeru Ndwiga (Cooperative Development) to streamline farming and cooperative societies in the region.
Mr Angwenyi said they wanted corrupt coffee societies closed and managers taken to court for misappropriation of funds.
He said all illegal land allocations in Simbauti farm had been cancelled, save for the portion that was sold to service loans owed by the Kisii Farmers Union.
They cautioned the people against buying land at the farm. "We have resolved to storm Simbauti farm accompanied by Mr Kirwa and Mr Ndwiga to cancel all illegal land allocations," said Mr Angwenyi.
They claimed that Stabex funds released to farmers last year had been misappropriated by managers of coffee societies.
Mr Opore said tea cess ended up in society directors' pockets instead of improving roads. Tea worth millions of shillings was going to waste due to inaccessible roads, he said.
The MP blamed poor infrastructure for the poverty that has hit farmers.
Mr Angwenyi claimed that pyrethrum farmers have not paid for the produce they delivered to Pyrethrum Board of Kenya (PBK) since February last year.
