kombo on war path

  BY JEFF OTIENO AGUKO
FREELANCE JOURNALIST-KISUMU KENYA
CURRENTLY A CORRESPONDENT STUDENT IN MANCHESTER COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM.
 
KOMBO ON WAR PATH WITH RAILA ODINGA ALLY.
 
Controversial former kisumu city council Town clerk Aduma Owuor who is believed to be a close Political associate of O.D.M Presidential flag bearer Raila Amollo Odinga,is currently facing frustrations at the hands of local government minister Musikari Kombo, who is allied to President Mwai Kibaki’s newly formed Party of National Unity(PNU).
 
Aduma was last two weeks transferred from Garrisa municipal council to Nairobi city to be a chief legal officer a position he occupied for a week before he got another letter from the parent ministry to immediately report to Ahero Town council as a Town clerk.
 
Early this week when he went there to take his new role, he got another stern letter dated 12th October 2007writen by local government permanent secretary S. Boit instructing him to immediately report to Kitale municipal council to assume the role of Director of Social Services.
 
Aduma who talked to this journalist while shading tears however vowed not to succumb to intimidations and frustrations from people who he alleged had misinformed the local government minister Musikari Kombo  and the PS that he was a dangerous administrator not worth being in the civil service.
 
Observers are however questioning the government policy regarding the transfer of civil servants.
 
Besieged Aduma who is a lawyer by profession used to practice in the kisumu city before he jumped ship into civil service after the NARC government took power from the Kanu regime in 2002.
 
His first posting was in kisumu city as a town clerk where he took hardly two years before he was transferred to Bondo courtesy of the minister for the local government Musikari Kombo who its believed doesn’t like his style of administration and by extension his association with the Odingas family.
 
For starters, Aduma used to represent Odingas political and legal matters when he was a practicing advocate, a factor which has made him to attract both friends and foes alike, and could be the reason why he is being fought as a renegade.
 
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