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Lawmaker, Sports CS face off at the airport over Raila remark

Alego Usonga MP Sam Atandi and Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa. Airport manager, police said matter did not warrant their intervention. [Standard Digital]

A Cabinet secretary and an MP nearly came to blows yesterday allegedly over remarks made against ODM leader Raila Odinga.

It reportedly took the intervention of Siaya Deputy Governor James Okumbe, Nominated MP Godfrey Osotsi and Kisumu East MP Shakeel Shabir to calm tempers during the confrontation between Alego Usonga MP Sam Atandi and Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa.

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