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By Cantona Joseph Published on : March 31, 2026 8:17 (EAT)

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A Kisumu court has stopped the ongoing vetting and approval of Homa-Bay Deputy governor nominee and two CEM nominees recently appointed by Governor Gladys Wanga to serve in her County Executive Committee.

The Employment and Labour Relations Court sitting in Kisumu issues an injunction stopping the ongoing vetting and approval of deputy governor nominee Danish Onyango, governance CECM nominee Isaac Ongiri and his trade counterpart Obiny Dede.

The stay order came after two residents, Michael Kojo and Evance Oloo Gor,  sought legal redress regarding issues affecting their nomination.

In their petition, they sued the Homa Bay Governor, the County Assembly, the County Assembly Clerk and the county attorney as the first, second, third and fourth respondents respectively.

The petitioners argue that the nomination has not complied with the law,  which requires gender equity; the law requires that a public office should not be composed of holders who are more than two-thirds of one gender.

Upon receiving the petition, the Employment and Labour Relations Court Judge, Nzioki Wa Makau, issues an order terminating the vetting until the case is concluded.

The three nominees were vetted by the County Assembly Committee on appointment on Thursday last week. But the court order means the exercise will not proceed until the case is concluded.

The case will be heard on April 28, 2026.

Odinga allies reveal dual strategy within ODM as questions linger over 2027 bid

Two close allies of former ODM leader Raila Odinga have shed light on the political calculations that shaped his engagement with the broad-based government, revealing a strategy that kept multiple options open should the arrangement falter.

Speaking to Citizen TV, Odinga’s former legal advisor Paul Mwangi and longtime spokesperson Dennis Onyango described a deliberate balancing act within the ODM party, involving both diplomatic engagement and a parallel hardline faction.

According to the two, a group within the party associated with more assertive political positions, including ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna and Siaya Governor James Orengo, served as a contingency should cooperation with President William Ruto’s administration break down.

“Raila would not engage in anything without an exit strategy. If things did not work out, he would turn to the militant faction and rally them as a fallback,” Mwangi said.

Onyango echoed the sentiment, noting that key figures within the party were positioned to provide an alternative political path if the broad-based arrangement proved untenable.

“Yes, leaders like Orengo and Sifuna were part of that exit card in case the arrangement did not work,” he said.

The two insiders indicated that these parallel approaches were not accidental but part of a structured strategy, with different teams operating under distinct instructions to preserve Odinga’s political flexibility.

“These are two teams that operated with different job descriptions,” Mwangi explained.

“He would tell you something and not necessarily tell another person the same thing,” Onyango added, suggesting a compartmentalised approach to political management.

Mwangi and Onyango also weighed in on the emerging divisions within ODM, suggesting that a split within the party may be inevitable amid competing interests and strategies.

“They have to split. It may be better for them if that happens,” Mwangi said.

Onyango projected a possible realignment of factions, with different leaders aligning with separate camps within the party.

Despite their shared insights into Odinga’s political strategy, the two differed on whether the former Prime Minister had made a decision regarding a potential presidential run in 2027.

Onyango maintained that Odinga kept his options open.

“He kept it open,” he said.

Mwangi, however, indicated there were no clear signs that Odinga was preparing for another bid, pointing instead to ongoing coalition-building efforts.

“He had not shown any signs of running again. There are things like building coalitions that we would be doing,” Mwangi said.

At least 16 killed in Haiti gang attack

By AFPMarch 31, 2026 06:41 (EAT)

Residential houses are pictured in the Petion-Ville hills of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on November 2, 2025.

A gang attack on a town in Haiti killed at least 16 people over the weekend, police said, as the UN chief warned Monday that the estimated death toll could be as high as 80 people.

“This attack underscores the gravity of the security situation faced by the Haitian population,” said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The attack from late Saturday into Sunday happened in Petite Riviere de l’Artibonite, a town in central Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas.

Members of the Gran Grif gang burned houses and left multiple people dead, local rights activist Bertide Horace said, with more attacks also happening Monday.

The exact toll was not immediately clear.

Pierre Esperance, a representative of the National Human Rights Defense Network, citing residents’ testimonies, told AFP that the attackers gunned down those fleeing the house fires “while others were executed at point-blank range.”

Esperance said he believed 70 were dead.

Police put the toll at 16 dead with 10 wounded, while Horace said around 30 were killed with roughly 10 people missing and several hurt.

Dujarric told reporters in New York that estimates of the death toll vary, ranging from 10 to up to 80 people killed.

A clearer death toll was not available because it is difficult to send a government official to count the bodies, said Venson Francois, a prosecutor from nearby Saint-Marc.

Francois said he feared a higher death toll because the attack was carried out during a local festival.

For years, Haiti has been in the throes of deadly gang violence, with frequent murders, rapes and kidnappings.

The UN rights office said last week that gang violence and security operations targeting the gangs led to more than 5,500 deaths between March 2025 and mid-January.

Of those, at least 1,424 people were killed as a result of violence by gangs, while 790 were wounded, according to the UN report.

Operations against gangs led by security forces caused at least 3,497 deaths and 1,742 injuries.

Meanwhile, attacks against gangs by self-defense groups caused at least 598 people to be killed and 76 injured.

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