A single tweet by Alego-Usonga MP Samuel Atandi has ripped open what many now see as a simmering power struggle in Siaya County, laying bare deep political fault lines beneath the region’s outward calm.
When Atandi urged Siaya Members of County Assembly (MCAs) to “smell the coffee,” he did not mention anyone by name. But the timing — coming hot on the heels of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) National Executive Committee’s dramatic move to remove Edwin Sifuna as Secretary-General — sent political shockwaves. Within hours, the cryptic message was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled call to impeach Siaya Governor James Aggrey Bob Orengo.
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