Bumula Mirror

It is a major boost to housing in Bumula Constituency following massive support from political leaders and well wishers demonstrated today during a resource mobilization exercise at Bumula Grounds where over 3 million shillings in cash, in kind and in pledges was raised. Under the auspices of the Mwambu Mabongah Trust Fund, leaders united to mobilize resources aimed at providing decent houses to the elderly members of the society, the widows and people with disability who  live in mud-walled grass-thatched huts. The Deputy President William Ruto represented by Tharaka Nithi Senator and Senate Deputy Speaker Hon. Kithure Kindiki gave 2 million shillings cash. The area MP Hon. Mwambu Mabongah, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa, and Sabatia MP Alfred Agoi each contributed 100 thousand shillings cash. Trans Nzoia governor Patrick Khaemba contributed 120,000, Webuye West MP Dan Wanyama 20,000, Hamisi MP Charles Gemose 30,000, Senate Deputy Speaker issued cheques worth 200,000

Bumula Member of Parliament Hon. Mwambu Mabongah has implored for leaders in the Western region to talk unity without preset conditions. Speaking at the burial of Mama Selina Namalwa Maloba in Mukhweya village of Kabuchai Constituency, the MP questioned the motive of some leaders who front themselves as options even as they speak the unity talk,saying a leader will always emerge after the talk on the much tauted togetherness is walked. "Our unity as Bukusu,Luhya. We should bring everybody on board regardless of affiliation. We should not talk supremacy this early. Such talks from more than one of us only creates squabbles that impede the walk of unity. My brothers Wetang'ula,Lusaka,Eugene,Wangamati and all of us should prioritize our togetherness as opposed to personal declarations of regional and tribal kingship," said the legislator. His sentiments came in a wake of supremacy proclamations in the runup to an expected flurry of activity in the region as they seek to

Bumula Member of Parliament, Hon. Mwambu Mabongah, has asked Luhya leaders to set aside their supremacy contests for the sake of communal unity. The independent first time legislator said that the community has lost its bargaining power to the disadvantage of the people due to fragmentation, mistrust and internal power struggles. "It is time we gave up our perennial supremacy battles in order to forge unity of purpose if we want to restore our deteriorating bargaining power on the national political scene. With our disunity no one takes us serious despite our obvious numerical endowment," he said. Speaking Sunday at St. Charles Lwanga Mukumu  Secondary School in Shinyalu constituency during a funds drive that was attended by Benjamin Washiali(Mumias East),Hon. Wangwe(Navakholo),Malulu Injendi(Malava),Bernard Shinali(Ikolomani),former Kakamega Senator Bonny Khalwale and a host of MCAs and local leaders, Mwambu asked leaders to shun external forces that he said are only

Bumula Member of Parliament Hon. Mwambu Mabongah reiterated his resolve to make the constituency a better place to live. Speaking  today at Mukwa polytechnic in Siboti Ward during this year's Madaraka Day celebrations, Mwambu said that at the end if his tenure, the people of Bumula will remember him for his initiatives in education, health and housing. Echoing this year's national theme, Forging Ahead Together, the legislator vowed to work with all stakeholders to carry on the vision of the nation's founding fathers envisaged during the fight for self rule. Hon. Mwambu used the function to enumerate his blueprint to better education and infrastructure, to ensure every constituent has access to affordable housing and gets empowered to sustain their day to day life. "I have rolled out a rapid development  programme that aims at ensuring better infrastructure in our schools and today, if you visit schools such as Mutua Primary, Napara ACK, Mundaa Primary, Wacholi