Post by ED on Nov 13, 2006 5:22:11 GMT 3
Raila Odingas Wife, Ida, STEALS Millions of Shillings!
www.timesnews.co.ke/12nov06/nwsstory/news1.html
Kenya Times Reporter
11.12.06
THE League of Kenya Women Voters (LKWV) yesterday maintained that the decision by the Council to suspend its chairperson Idah Odinga to allow a special audit still stands and rubbished the Friday’s move to dissolve the Council.
They stood ground that Mrs Idah, the ODM-K Presidential candidate Raila Odinga’s wife will remain out of the LKWV offices for two weeks.
Led by a Council member Waithira Chege, the women alleged that the chairperson unilaterally sent away the finance and administration manager thus making it impossible to carry out the audit.
On Friday, the chairperson dissolved the LKWV Council saying the organisation will call for a special general meeting on December 9 to decide the next course of action but members declared that the meeting cannot take place as it has not been legally called in accordance with their constitution.
“The chairperson has no authority under our constitution to dissolve the Council unilaterally and her (Ida’s) actions are therefore illegal and uncalled for. There are serious governance and accountability issues that the Council has been trying to resolve in order to protect the integrity of the organisation and members’ interests which cannot be solved by the action taken by the chairperson,” Chege observed.
According to the provisions of the LKWV, no member can unilaterally rescind a decision of the Council even if she or he is in better positions.
Reliable sources told the Sunday Times that Mrs Odinga had allegedly swindled Sh10 million donated by the European Union adding that she further dismissed from the organisation all the staff who are not from her tribe.
Sources further intimated to us that the League’s executive director Irene Oloo who happen to be Idah’s niece has at her disposal all the five vehicles that belong to the League and that the Council uses a lot of money to repair them following alleged misuse.
They claimed the vehicles are involved in accidents when Oloo uses them on behalf of the chairperson to donate funds to only Bondo and Migori districts against donor regulations and what LKWV stands for
It is also alleged that major international meetings are only attended by Mrs Odinga and her niece.
Sources further disclosed that the League’s offices are allegedly being used to coordinate Raila Odinga’s Presidential Campaign Fund for Women candidates, adding that Idah turns down women who do not belong to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Kenya.
www.timesnews.co.ke/12nov06/nwsstory/news1.html
Kenya Times Reporter
11.12.06
THE League of Kenya Women Voters (LKWV) yesterday maintained that the decision by the Council to suspend its chairperson Idah Odinga to allow a special audit still stands and rubbished the Friday’s move to dissolve the Council.
They stood ground that Mrs Idah, the ODM-K Presidential candidate Raila Odinga’s wife will remain out of the LKWV offices for two weeks.
Led by a Council member Waithira Chege, the women alleged that the chairperson unilaterally sent away the finance and administration manager thus making it impossible to carry out the audit.
On Friday, the chairperson dissolved the LKWV Council saying the organisation will call for a special general meeting on December 9 to decide the next course of action but members declared that the meeting cannot take place as it has not been legally called in accordance with their constitution.
“The chairperson has no authority under our constitution to dissolve the Council unilaterally and her (Ida’s) actions are therefore illegal and uncalled for. There are serious governance and accountability issues that the Council has been trying to resolve in order to protect the integrity of the organisation and members’ interests which cannot be solved by the action taken by the chairperson,” Chege observed.
According to the provisions of the LKWV, no member can unilaterally rescind a decision of the Council even if she or he is in better positions.
Reliable sources told the Sunday Times that Mrs Odinga had allegedly swindled Sh10 million donated by the European Union adding that she further dismissed from the organisation all the staff who are not from her tribe.
Sources further intimated to us that the League’s executive director Irene Oloo who happen to be Idah’s niece has at her disposal all the five vehicles that belong to the League and that the Council uses a lot of money to repair them following alleged misuse.
They claimed the vehicles are involved in accidents when Oloo uses them on behalf of the chairperson to donate funds to only Bondo and Migori districts against donor regulations and what LKWV stands for
It is also alleged that major international meetings are only attended by Mrs Odinga and her niece.
Sources further disclosed that the League’s offices are allegedly being used to coordinate Raila Odinga’s Presidential Campaign Fund for Women candidates, adding that Idah turns down women who do not belong to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Kenya.