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You’re a small man, Gusii leaders and elders tell Simba Arati

Dagoretti North MP Paul Simba Arati expressed desires to be the Gusii spokesman [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Dagoretti North MP Paul Simba Arati has dug himself into trouble after proclaiming desire to be the Gusii community spokesman.

Now, leaders in Kisii and Nyamira are dismissing him as not only an outsider, but also one who ranks way below many of them in the community. Already, some NASA leaders are reading mischief, claiming Arati’s new drive is a plot pushed to have him as the coalition point man in the region. Kisii Deputy Governor Joash Maangi has termed Arati’s plans as preposterous self-proposition.

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