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Nyachae to Host Councillors in Bid to Counter Orange Team
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- Published on Monday, 16 July 2007 23:46
The 147 civic leaders are expected to attend the meeting to be held a day before the Orange and Banana teams' campaign rallies in Kisii.
Nyachae is scheduled to hold a rally at Kiogoro trading centre in his Nyaribari Chache constituency on October 28, while No crusaders will be at Gusii Stadium two days later.
Kisii Mayor Stephen Omurwa, who is co-ordinating the Thursday meeting at the minister's Nyosia home, said all councillors, including Orange sympathisers, had been invited.
"Nyachae, as our party leader, has requested to meet all councillors and talk to them on need to support the proposed constitution," said Omurwa.
Sources told The Standard that the Energy minister wants to listen to the civic leaders' persistent complaints that MPs were isolating them.
"Many councillors have joined the Orange camp as a protest to the manner their MPs were treating them. Nyachae, as the Ford People boss, has accepted to listen to their grievances," said the mayor.
The minister has vowed to use his resources and influence to change the strong wave of the No team, which includes his party MP Omingo Magara.
But some said they would attend the Nyachae's meeting "just hear what he might be having for us".
Elsewhere, Assistant minister Mwangi Kiunjuri has refuted claims that he was behind the violence, which rocked Nanyuki on Sunday during Orange campaign rally.
Yesterday, Kiunjuri said he was not anywhere near the town at the time. "When they were having their rally, I was 100 kilometres away at Kinamba in Laikipia West attending a Banana campaign meeting, and on Saturday, I was in Naivasha. The last time I was in Nanyuki was on Kenyatta Day," Kiunjuri said.
The No team leaders Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta had blamed Kiunjuri for the disruption of their meeting.
But the Energy Assistant minister scoffed at the claims, saying they could not convince wananchi.
