NAROK NORTH MP MAKES LAMENTING HIS MAIN JOB

Narok North MP Moitalel ole Kenta has told Deputy
President William Ruto and his foot soldiers and
MPs to respect political boundaries and stop
endless political tourism in his constituency.

Kenta complained that most of the DP’s tours to his
Narok North constituency were aimed at politically
undermining him because the visits are allegedly
organised without informing him as the host MP.

“The DP has been making visits to my constituency
and I view those visits as a ploy to undermine me
politically because the organisers keep me out of
the planning team as protocol demands,’’ a bitter
complained.

The last visit by the DP attracted countrywide
condemnation after the majority leader in
parliament Aden Duale nearly exchanged blows
with the chairman of the Council of Governors
Isaac Rutto over the ongoing referendum debate on
Pesa Mashinani and Okoa Kenya.

“Although the deputy president has made many
visits in my area, he has brought no development
agenda for the Narok people except taking
advantage of such forums to politically fight his
perceived enemies using his political spanner boys
like Duale,’’ a furious Kenta complained.

The visit last week by the DP was to mark the Mara
Game Reserve and Mau Forest Day where leaders
were to chart strategies put in place to conserve
the two national heritages but the forum turned
into political showdown.

Kenta, the only TNA MP in Narok county, alleged
that the numerous visits by the DP is making in his
constituency amount to undermining President
Uhuru Kenyatta because the area is TNA zone.

The DP should accept that Narok North electorates
made their right choice and have no regret to have
him as their MP.

Kenta who won the seat after humiliating the self
declared Maasai community kingmaker William
Ole Ntimama who vied on an ODM ticket vowed to
resist any attempts by the DP and area governor
Samuel Ole Tunai to turn his constituency into URP
zone.

He urged his TNA supporters to remain firm with
him and resist any attempts to convince them to
change their loyalty so as to attract development
projects which he claimed the national and county
governments have allegedly denied them because
of their political affiliation.

Roads in Narok North are in pathetic condition
despite the area being classified among
agricultural zones in the county.

“Many farmers have downed their tools after
counting heavy losses for failing to deliver their
farm produce to markets in time due deplorable
condition of roads yet county government is
spending huge amounts of money constructing new
roads in uneconomical areas in order to attract
political mileage,” said Ole Kenta.

He told Tunai to serve all people living in the
cosmopolitan county without discrimination in
line with Jubilee government policy.

The MP claimed that despite overwhelming
support, Uhuru and Ruto-led Jubilee coalition
enjoyed in the whole of Narok county, supporters
allied to TNA are allegedly getting raw deal from
the county government and demanded fair
distribution of available resources to all
irrespective of political affiliation.

Kenta claimed that Governor Tunai for
unknown reasons has blacklisted his Narok North
constituency saying that services, resources and
employment opportunities earmarked for the area
are being shifted to the governor’s perceived
political correct areas .

A furious Kenta wondered why Narok town and
the neighbouring estates which are known TNA
strongholds have been denied services as
evidenced by heaps of garbage that have littered
most pathways and pose health hazard to the
residents.

“Narok town is the county headquarters and
gateway to the world famous Masai Mara Game
Reserve but today, it is rated the dirtiest county
headquarters in country. Governor Tunai and his
team have deliberately ignored Narok town
business community despite huge amount of
revenue they pay to the county through business
licence fees. Is it because they supported and
elected a Jubilee MP?’’ posed Ole Kenta as he called
for fair services to all by both the national and
county governments Kenta made history in Narok county after he
brought to an abrupt end the political life of
veteran Maasai community politician Ntimama.

Kenta was the only MP out six in the county elected
on TNA ticket while others including the governor,
senator and women representative are elected on
URP platform.

Kenta told Narok North constituency residents to
stand up and stop shying away from demanding
from the county their rightful share of the county
cake.

“The governor should share available resources
and employment opportunities equitably to all
communities living in the county irrespective of
their party affiliation or ethnic backgrounds. If
they push us to the wall, we shall seek legal redress
if need be to compel the governor to share equally
the available resources to all us a democratic
right,’’ said Kenta.

Kenta said the current disparity in employment
opportunities and distribution of resources in the
county demonstrated unfairness when some
communities worse of all the Purko clan of the
Maasai community are deliberately locked out.
Kenta said that he has no apology to make to
anybody for demanding the rightful share of the
county cake for the Maa community’s Purko clan
whom he claimed have been unfairly left out in
deployment of officers in senior county and
national government.

“Members of the Purko clan who are the majority
among the Maa speaking community have suffered
under the leadership of the governor Tunai.
They have been completely locked out in favour of
relatively small clans courtesy of their political
affiliation,” Kenta claimed.

He said it is the constitutional right of Purko clan
and other communities living in the county to get
employment in the county for as long as they meet
required entry grades.

The MP vowed not to sit and watch his
people languish in poverty and lack of service
when the governor was importing people from
outside the county to work in the area saying the
county has enough skilled manpower to take all
employment positions.

On development, Kenta accused the county
government of claiming ownership of projects they
have not funded in order to attract political
mileage.

He named the ongoing road project at Lemanet
area funded by his CDF which he claimed some
officers from the governor’s office were spotted
taking photographs with intention to claim
ownership and for several classrooms funded
through his CDF kitty.

The legislator warned that some things happening
at the county government were provocative and
asked for sobriety in approach to issues that affect
the lives of the residents before they explode into
unmanageable crisis.