BY
ADOW JUBAT
Heavily armed security officers cordon off Garissa
County assembly compound and it’s environ on Thursday afternoon as members of
the County assembly bitterly divided on the recruitment of the assembly clerk were
expected to debate the divisive matter at 2.30 PM.
The house was unusually full with members, some who
are notorious for absconding, the evening session for a siesta or having a date
with their favorite pastime hobby- exercising their jaws- with Meru vegetations.
The filling the clerk position has been a political
hot potato, with some members of the County assembly pushing for the confirming
of the current clerk Mohamud Ahmed Santur, while other members are vehemently opposed
to the move and want his predecessors who was bundled out prior to be reinstated.
Interestingly, the lucrative and the most superior position
after the speaker’s in the County assembly has never being put into competitive
bidding and instead has become a jostling game of music chairs between two
groups of MCAs.
The debate onto the matter has been postponed twice
as the matter is feared to spill blood in the floor of the house, as the jostling
and night meeting by the two side getting murky with innocent electorates of
Garissa grumbling with thirsty, flash floods and pangs of empty stomachs from
Balambala,to Abalatirow, from Hullugho to Skanska in Modogashe.
Few hours to the silently adjourned crucial session, as MCAs driving in in flashy vehicles jam-packed the squeezing compound of
the County assembly as horrified Mama Gulia kept at bay by hawk-eyed security
personnel remained behind the perimeter wall peeping as she murmured “Is there “Muraat”
( anything to eat today the house)”???
The clerk issue is expected to come up in the house
on Tuesday next.
Garissa is following a trend set by Wajir County
where under similar circumstance the endorsement of the County assembly led
into chair fight in the house and prolong court battle.
Keep here, as we keep eyes on your leaders.
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