The wrangles at the Kisumu county assembly heightened yesterday after some MCAs threatened to kick out majority leader and chief whip. The MCAs were unhappy with Majority Leader Kenneth Onyango and Chief Whip Gard Olima for allegedly failing to unite the assembly. The assembly has 49 leaders - the speaker, 35 elected MCAS and their 13 nominated counterparts. He said speaker Onyango Oloo has been giving a lot of leeway to the majority leader whenever he makes noise or does anything pitting the MCAs against each other. “The majority leader is an icon in the assembly who is supposed to unite the house and not have factions, if he fails we will call on the ODM party and if they don’t want to be on that sit, then the deputy majority leader will assume it,”she said.

Source: The Star February 21, 2019 19:18 UTC