Why Garissa voters should send Aden Duale packing

• Aden Duale is the representative of the people of Garissa Township and the Leader of the Majority in parliament.
• He was elected in 2013 under the United republican party.
  

  As we inch closer to the much-awaited date with the ballot, I wish to explain why voters in Garissa Township should send the incumbent MP, Aden Duale, home. For starters, Mr Duale failed to strike a healthy balance between his primary job as a legislator, who is a representative of the people of Garissa Township, and his nominative assignment as the Leader of the Majority in Parliament.

  The latter role eclipsed his mandate as a legislator who was elected to voice the concerns and grievances of his constituents and made him to appear to be a full-time Government and Jubilee Party spokesperson. I hear and read a lot of flirtatious comments of people praising Duale for bringing mega development in Garissa town during his tenure in Parliament. While it would be injudicious for me to dispute the improvements we have seen in the town under his 10-year rule, his development record is too low when measured on the scales of a man who tagged himself 'the third in command' in Kenya's hierarchy of power in the past four years, during which he had unfettered access to State House and other prized government installations.