By Adow Jubat
Former Garissa mayor has declared an interest
to vie for Garissa township parliamentary seat which is current held by
majority leader of the national assembly Aden Duale.
Dualle drinking camel milk from a metallic hotpot
Siyad
Osman Ibrahim in exclusive interview with Frontier Leaks said he is batter placed
in steering the Township electorates than the current MP who has turned himself into a political vuvuzela
for the executive.
The former two terms mayor who claims to have
tutored, the majority leader on how to play politics said he have wealth of
experience to propel the constituency to prosperity.
He noted that his unmatched development
records will favour him against other contenders - the majority leader at
national assembly and the former deputy speaker Farah Maalim who he allege have nothing to show other than being national political 'noise makers'.
Ibrahim who comes
from Duale’s Rer-Yahya sub-clan of Abduwak clan accused the current leadership
of abdicated his role to represent the electorates and instead took
irrelevant role of act as the spokesperson of the Jubilee administration.
He lambasted
Duale's leadership style of playing politics of “sycophancy” to the executive
which has no replicating benefit to the local residents.
He said: “The majority
leader always pride himself to be close to the president Uhuru and his deputy
but his has done nothing for the local people to show his closeness the
country’s leadership”,
The former deputy Kenya High commissioner to
Pakistan said his quest to unseat Dualle is unstoppable, not that his confident
that Abdulwak council of elders will pick him to the flag bearer for 2017 since
he has stepped down twice for Dualle.
“My only challenge will be former Deputy
Speaker Farah Maalim for Township seat. To me Dualle is a forgone case since I will obliterate him at the clan primary,”. He said boastfully
He added : “His
community and voters in Township has given him two terms, and majority of them are
now asking what he will offer that he couldn’t for 10 years. Garissa people are
not ready to establish dynasty,” he said.
He added: “I will only abide by the verdict of
council of elders if they are fair because I step down twice in the respect of elders,
but this time round they will need to provide with me a truckload of thesis to convince me
not garner for the seat,”
“I urge
my brothers Dualle and Farah to pave way for others to lead. The two have been
elected twice as members of parliament and reached the high echelon of the
country’s political leadership as majority leader and deputy speaker
respectively”,
Ibrahim accused the current national and county
leadership in Garissa of reestablishing a dirty political contest based on clan
patronage which he said has heighten clan rivalry in the county ahead of the
forthcoming election.
“When I was a mayor there was the kind of Clannism
being experienced in Garissa town and this was because of my efforts to create environment
free from clan manipulation. But unfortunately, there is emergency of
politicians both at the county and national level whose their political
survival is hinged on stirring inter-clan animosity and they must be stopped,”
he said.
He said if elected as the Member of Parliament
for Garissa Township he will represent and do oversight role as required adding
that the lawmaker has forgotten his role and resorted to defending the
government of the day at the expense of the suffering electorates.
The Garissa township seat hopeful at the same
time said inter-clan feuds have led t underdevelopment in the region with
elected leaders doing little in bring people together and encouraging cohesion among locals.
