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Homa Bay County Women’s Rep, Gladys Wanga, has denied claims she is a ‘prostitute’.
She said she is respectfully married in Kochia Homa Bay County, and her character is the preserve of her husband.
“I am not a prostitute,” she said as she dismissed a slight against her person, reportedly attributed to Raireda MP, Engineer Nicholas Gumbo. The MP reportedly made the denigrating remarks at the home of Siaya County ODM Secretary, Engineer Carrey Orege on January 2. Engineer Orege and Gumbo both harbour ambitions of being Siaya Governor come 2017.
Wanga had reportedly earlier alleged that Gumbo was a Jubilee mole and would thus not clinch the party ticket to vie for the governor’s post. An angry Gumbo is said to have retorted: “An ochot ok nyal puonja siasa. Siaya ok Homa Bay kama chode siasa igoyoye (a prostitute cannot pretend to give me lessons in politics. Siaya is not Homa Bay where political prostitutes hail from).
Wanga later told a local radio station that her ambition to run for the ODM chair in Homa Bay against MP Opondo Kaluma, should not be a reason for such attacks and insults.
She however extended an olive branch to Gumbo and Kaluma, saying she had harboured no hard feelings against them despite the insults, because her constituents and, more importantly, her husband, know that she is not a prostitute.
