Homa Bay; The County of Choice!

WELCOME TO THE COUNTY OF CHOICE!!

Homa Bay, they say is the County of choice.

It is the county where the County government CHOOSES to award tenders to young entrepreneurs and contractors. The young entrepreneurs and contractors then choose to accomplish the work and tenders they have been awarded.

The county government then CHOOSES NOT to pay the contractors and suppliers for the work they have done.

When the said contractors CHOOSES to ask the county government to honor their deal and pay up, the County government CHOOSES to use the police force to beat up and teargas the said contractors for demanding to be paid.

Conveniently forgetting that he will CHOOSE to run for a second term in office in 2017, the incumbent (governor) CHOOSES to ignore the plight of his potential voters.

Deeply inebriated from the strappings that come appended to power, his political advisors have CHOSEN to sleep on the job instead of advising him to reconsider his stand.

The big question is, will they (contractors) CHOOSE to vote him again? ONLY TIME WILL TELL.

HOMA BAY INDEED IS THE COUNTY OF CHOICE!

Empower the marginalised, Not the Already Empowered!

The Gender Bill is meant to actualize Chapter 4 Article 27 (8) of our Constitution that addresses gender inequality in our society; the provision requires the State to make a legislation that will ensure that no more than two-thirds of the members of elective or appointive bodies shall be of the same gender.

My opinion advises that like the provision that created the position of Women Reps, Article 27 (8) was also wrong in its conception; my opinion further advices that both provisions are classic cases of putting the cart before the horse.

To any father who is proud of her daughters like I am, the idea of gender equality is noble and should be supported wholesomely; however, to use the plight of the millions of marginalized women and girls for the purpose of benefitting a few within the society is immoral.

In my opinion, any attempt at addressing gender marginalization should focus on the girl child and not the woman because each and every marginalized adult woman is the product of a marginalized girl child; sort the problem at its budding stage and you won't have marginalized women roaming around the country; it is a fact that a marginalized old woman is irredeemably marginalized:

Lavishing already empowered women doctors, professors, relatives of the powerful, etc with prestigious and lucrative government positions, does not look like addressing issues affecting the marginalized girl or woman in any way, from, shape or manner:

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