Kalonzo urges Donya Toto to work with Arati, end squabbles

Wiper Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka has urged Kisii Woman Representative Doris Donya Toto to end the squabbles with County Governor Simba Arati.

Mr Musyoka said on Friday that the existing animosity between the two leaders was unhealthy and likely to derail development in the region.

Ms Toto was elected on the Wiper Party ticket.

"Doris, I have told you to begin working with Governor Simba Arati. I want to see you support him as from today. We are in the same coalition and there is no need for unnecessary squabbles going forward," Mr Musyoka urged.

He said already he has chaired a meeting with the two leaders in a lasting effort to end the tiff between them.

Mr Musyoka spoke shortly after some youths temporarily blocked Ms Toto from entering the tent where leaders were eulogizing the late Bomachoge Chache MP Simon Ogari.

“I have read the mood of these youths… that they want you team up and work with your Governor. Kindly begin to do so,” stated former Vice President.

The former VP was among leaders who had turned up at the burial.

Ms Toto and Nominated Senator Essy Okenyuri did not speak at the burial.

Ogari passed on at his Karen home on September 10, 2024, aged 68.

He was a quantity surveyor before leaping into politics in 2009 and
got elected in on an ODM ticket, hounding out the then MP Joel Onyancha in a by-election.

Later he was re-elected as MP of the newly created Bomachoge Chache constituency at the time.

At some point, he served as Assistant Minister for Trade, Information and Communications between 2012 and 2013.

In his retirement from active politics, he retreated to active consultancy as a Quantity Surveyor in Nairobi.