Come up with mechanism to deal with masqueraders, ODM told

  

The Orange Democratic Movement party must come up with a mechanism to deal with masquerades who pose as party officials to mislead members, Gem branch officials have said.

 According to the officials, the delay in releasing the branch chairmanship election results has seen strange members come up to pose as party officials in the area, hence causing confusion.

 Led by the North Gem ward ODM chairman, Julius Omulo, the party officials further called on the party headquarters to produce an official list of its officials, from the grassroots, to be posted in its offices.

 “As the elected party officials from North Gem, we want to appeal to the party headquarters to come up with a disciplinary mechanism so that we do not mess up at the ground level,” Omulo said.

Omulo, together with other officials, addressed the media at the Kodiaga community hall in North Gem.

 North Gem ward women leader, Anjeline Onono said it was high time the party headquarters addressed the leadership wrangles within Gem branch once and for all.

  “As we speak, we are yet to get the results of the chairmanship election which we participated in at Wagai,” she said.

  The Gem branch youth organising secretary, Alfred Opondo said attempts by a section of the party officials in the headquarters to interfere with the duly elected grassroots officials were likely to affect the party's performance.

Opondo told the party headquarters to be wary of a scheme by people intending to vie for political positions who are using money to position their unpopular cronies into party leadership positions.

 “We know some of them who sponsored candidates from other parties against ODM candidates during the past elections,” he said, adding that this was a scheme to kill the party in Gem constituency.

  A delegate, Gabriel Odhiambo Anyango, said the party headquarters cannot feign ignorance of what is happening with the party leadership in the area.

  “It is the party headquarters that ordered elections to be done at Wagai, which we did. They should come clean and declare the results from the votes we cast and give us a list of bona fide party officials,” he said.