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The Government will not marginalise Abagusii, Mr Simeon Nyachae said yesterday.

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Published on Saturday, 02 June 2007 07:08

Nyachae, the leader of Ford People, told Abagusii that his defeat in the last presidential poll can never spell doom for them. Nyachae and nine other elected MPs from the three districts of Abagusii, said the Government recognises them and they are in a close working relationship.

They said they have been busy working with the Government and other political entities with a view to either learning or championing the means by which to improve the living standards of Abagusii."The fact that Abagusii voted for Ford People does not mean that you can now be left out in the cold as some people have been trying to speculate," Nyachae said.

He said he had been unhappy with the former regime and could not work with its provincial administrators for two years because of poor administration and management."But now you can even see the District Commissioners from the three Abagusii districts and departmental heads attending our meeting here because we are working closely with the Government", Nyachae said. He said politics, especially the election contest, had had their time and could not be carried forward when it came to the distribution of the national cake or pursuit of development matters.

And Abagusii leaders vowed to defend their new-found spirit of unity for the community. They said they will tackle the problems afflicting education, the agricultural sector, security, the general business and co-existence with other Kenyan communities.

"If one may be thinking about the last General Election to be having any influence about the future of our community, he is wrong because we are now embarking on how to foster the development and prosperity of Omogusii alongside other Kenyans," Nyachae stated. He also said the election in which he was beaten in the presidential race, was now a forgotten chapter because he and other people lost while there were those who had to win the contest.

"That was a fight for a seat and we finished it... and if you are beaten in a race, you accept it," he added. Accompanying Nyachae at the meeting were fellow MPs Jimmy Angwenyi, Henry Obwocha, Hezron Manduku, Zebedeo Opore, Omingo Magara, Joel Onyancha, Stephen Manoti, Nyang’au Okioma and Geoffrey Masanya.

Also present was Kisii DC Abdullahi Leloon, his Nyamira counterpart Jamleck Baruga and Gucha’s Samuel Kelele, alongside several other leaders and professionals drawn from the political, religious and social strata in Kisii, Nyamira and Gucha districts. Nyachae and the other MPs also came up with declaration of the "Omogusii unity", saying it would champion the interests of the community as well as their co-existence in the political and social economic activities with other communities.

The Abagusii MPs said the support a constitutional review process in which the interests of all communities, individuals and organisations are catered for in a more democratic perspective. They, on the other hand, formed committees that would held promote education, security and the general infrastructure, especially roads, in the three Omogusii districts.

But in Nairobi former legislator, George Anyona, broke his long silence to dismiss the current crop of Omogusii MPs as misguided. Anyona said the Ford-P law-makers had misled the community into voting them into office with no agenda for addressing the myriad problems afflicting Abagusii.

He said some of the MPs were now panicking after they failed to deliver "the promised land" to the community. "Some of these MPs have now organised stage-managed meetings to hoodwink the Abagusii that they were still in charge," Anyona said in Nairobi. Anyona dismissed the MPs as selfish individuals who rode on the Ford-P craze to get into Parliament.

He said some of them were so scared that they cannot face the electorate because of the unfulfilled promises made during electioneering.Anyona was reacting to the meeting in Kisii to which former MPs were invited by the incumbents.