Nominated Senator Godliver Omondi

The nominated senator representing People Living with Disability (PLD) Godliver Omondi has claimed Homa Bay governor Cyprian Awiti locked him out of office.

Omondi said even though she wrote a letter to Homa Bay governor three weeks ago she was still locked out of his office.

The senator is on a tour to different counties inspecting projects initiated by county government to support PLD.

She claimed that she was denied audience by the Homa Bay governor.

“I sent my letter three weeks earlier stating the date and time would visit the county, on arrival we found that’s when the governor had called for a crisis meeting; however from reliable sources there was no meeting he was just in his office,” said Ms Omondi.

She said her entourage waited for long t Awiti’s office before going to the county assembly and latter were told the governor had left for another office and only served by a secretary.

Senator further expressed her worries over the kind of treatment that the PLD were experiencing in Homa Bay.

“Homa Bay County has no plans for PLD from what I saw when I paid them a visit. It is clear that the funds allocated for PLD in the county did nothing; because there is nothing to show for it. The PLD told me that in Homa Bay nobody is listening to them, and I experienced it,” she complained.

She vowed to go back and get an audience with Awiti to give PLD their county pie or organize a Demonstration within the county.

“I will drop the tag of honorable senator and become dishonorable and mobilize the entire county in a huge demonstration where we shall paralyze all businesses in the county,” she noted.

The county government of Homa Bay, however through director of communications John Oywa downplayed the claims saying that the governor never snubbed the senator.

“We strongly deny claims that the Governor snubbed the senator and her team, the governor was in a meeting with the members of his executive when the senator arrived,” he said.

Oywa said she was ushered into the waiting longue and respectfully asked to allow the governor finish the meeting in ten minutes but she said she couldn’t wait and left for the assembly promising to return in a short while.

“She took long and by the time she returned the governor had left for another scheduled meeting at Farmers Training Centre,” he said.