By MN Reporter
A standoff between Wasweta 2 ward residents in Suna West sub-county and their MCA has seen them repair Nyailing’a-Kipasi Singa Primary School road.
Led by Solomon Asembo, residents said the impassable road has been key in connecting Bondo Nyironge and Nyabisawa centers in the area through Munyu Maranatha Church and Nyailing’a Primary Schools across Nyamtembe river.
Residents told Migori News they do not have any access road after Suna West MP Peter Masara through area NG-CDF kitty opened the new Kipasi Singa Primary School.
“We have been forced to carry our dead for burial and limit sell of our agricultural produce because of the impassable road,” Asembo said.
He said attempts through MCA Patrick Aran to have the road cleared have hit a snag.
But Aran said while the action by residents was normal repair, they were “being negative on matters development of the area.”
Aran said after securing a grader from county ministry of roads, he donated Sh20,000 fuel from his own pocket but work did not progress.
“A woman who claimed the road was grabbing her land threatened to strip naked because of me if the work progress,” Aran said.
Striping naked in Luo culture is a way of a curse.
“I told the community to iron out their difference with the woman and alert me to go ahead with the road, nothing happened,” Aran said.
He added: “it is political which is nonsense, people leading these have no clear mind, clearing a community road is normal.”
He said because of heavy rains in the swampy area, work stalled but promised it will progress soon.
Its so sad and again a solemn responsibility by the people to work for a better community.
The sad part of this is related to lack of committed leadership by the area MCA.
It is now known to the public that the said MCA has fully given up his quest and has gained the abnormality of ignoring what he fully represents!