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Leaders Plan Parallel Rallies in Kisii Again
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- Published on Monday, 16 July 2007 23:44
While the Orange team led by Raila will be staging its final rally in the larger Kisii at Gusii Stadium, which falls in Nyachae's Nyaribari Chache constituency, the Energy minister will be seeking votes from the Nyamira District residents, about 15 kilometres away.
Also expected at the Nyamira rally will be several Cabinet ministers led by Vice-President Moody Awori.
Chief organisers of the two camps, Assistant minister Henry Obwocha (Banana) and former Cabinet minister Sam Ongeri (Orange), pleaded for peaceful campaigns.
They both denied they had deliberately organised the rallies with intentions to sabotage each other's meetings.
"We applied ahead of the Orange team. In any case ours will be in Nyamira, many kilometres from Kisii town. If their meeting fails that will be up to them," said Obwocha, who will be the host MP.
On his part Ongeri accused the Banana team of fixing the Nyamira rally to coincide with the Orange one in Kisii with ulterior motives.
"Their aim is to take away some of the Kisii residents who would have wished to attend our meeting.
At the same time, the Kisii OCPD yesterday issued a stern warning to Kisii politicians and their supporters to "keep off the meetings if you do not want to listen to your rival".
At a news conference in his office, Donasian Njagi confirmed that police officers had been brought in from other stations to ensure there was law and order during the two rallies.
This is the second time that the Orange and Banana teams are holding parallel rallies in Gusiiland within a month.
Three weeks ago both Nyachae and Raila led their teams to Ogembo and Gusii stadiums respectively.
Meanwhile, Nyachae will today lead a delegation of Gusii leaders to meet President Kibaki at State House, Nakuru, to present, among others issues, the community's demands ahead of the November 21 referendum.
In the delegation are local MPs allied to the Banana camp, including Obwocha, Parliamentary Consensus Committee chairman Jimmy Angwenyi and a host of councillors drawn from the 15 civic bodies in the region.
The meeting was brokered by Nyachae following a request by the councillors when they paid him a courtesy call at his Nyosia home last Friday.
Nyamira County Council chairman, Councillor Alfayo Ngereza, who was yesterday finalising travel arrangements for his colleagues, said they would demand for two more new districts.
The delegation will also push for elevation of Egerton University's Kisii Campus to a fully-fledged university sta
