The clash between Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala and Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa’s supporters on Friday that resulted in the stoning of vehicles and a brief shoot out, point to the ongoing supremacy wars in the politics of succession in Western Kenya.
For the first time in decades, a new and younger breed of politicians is stepping out of the shadows of the traditional kingpins to claim their place and fill an anticipated vacuum to be left with the exit of the region’s political old boys.