The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has embarked of a requirement drive of new members to the party in Busia County. The exercise was launched during a one day training of the County party officials on the recruitment of new members and the BBI report at a Busia hotel.
The party National Director of Membership Rosemary Kariuki who launched the exercise, said they have digitalized most of party system including payment of party membership fee, “We are a national party and that is why we accommodate everybody and what we are doing today is explaining the new ways of recruitment, we are digital as well as manual and we are also now cashless so we want to tell the members of public that everything is paid through a playbill. You don’t need to give any money to anybody and it’s best to visit the branch offices to get more information on recruitment, don’t go just to anybody, come to our branch offices.”
Party leaders including the National Deputy Secretary General who is also the Busia County woman representative Hon. Florence Mutua, Busia County ODM chairperson Patrick Obongoya, the County Secretary General Innocent Oluku, Youth league chair James Anyango and County women league chairperson Anjela Nafula were present.
They vowed to ensure the party gets stronger in the County and take all elective seats in the 2022 general elections, “Busia County leads in terms of membership requirement and we want to ensure we continue being at the top. There is no doubt that ODM is the most popular party in the County and country and we want to make it more stronger. In 2017 there are candidates who got seats on other parties through the NASA coalition, we want to put them on notice and tell them that come 2022, ODM will take all seats.”
They also threw their weight behind the BBI report hailing proposals that would empower the youth and increase allocations to the devolved units, “The four year grace period given to youths before they start repaying their HELB loans is so commendable. The formation of a youth commission will go a long way in addressing issues affect the youth in this country.”