By MN Reporter
Isaac Aluochier, the activist who stopped Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) reggae by filing a constitutional petition has thrown his hat inside next Migori senator race in August general elections.
Aluochier said by December last year he was planning to vie as Migori governor but shifted base for the senator race.
“I wanted to vie for governor seat but the seat’s campaign requirements are very hectic like I was not able to raise enough campaigns funds before funds drive time elapsed on December,” Aluochier said.
He said he chose the next available option after missing the county executive seat for the legislative arm and “Migori so far doesn’t have a strong senator candidate, so I chose the seat to give Migori residents pride by having a senator with a record on defending human rights.”
“Additionally I have good national and internation appeal and will be a good ambassador for Migori in fighting for their rights. I have been a human rights and constitutional activits for past decade, I need another platform to articulate this further,” Aluochier said.
Speaking to the Star, Aluochier said he had picked Justice and Freedom Party as his ticket and downplayed losing out in the Orange Democratic Movement stronghold after ensuring the constitutional change stopped on its track.
“While I was studying in United Kingdom I was the ODM chairman in that country, I stopped being a member of ODM by December 2012 long before BBI came in existence,” he explained.
Aluochier said his political stance now and in 2017 when he unsuccessfully vied for Rongo Constituency seat happened long after he had decamped from ODM party and long before Raila Odinga moved in the constitutional changes.
“I quit ODM because of chaotic and shambolic nominations, the party is just a democracy by name. This has been made worse by census talks for nominations,” he said.
Despite being on a different angle with the ODM party and Raila Odinga, Aluochier father John Linus Aluoch Polo was the Rongo MP in the first multiparty general election between 1992-97 with Ford Kenya ticket under Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
The Odinga and Polo families still enjoy strong ties as Luo elites, Aluochier is educated in Universities of Reading and Cranfield in England for his bachelors and masters degrees respectively.
He studied as a Quantity Surveryor for his undergraduate degree and Project Management at masters’ level.
“I worked in financial and construction industry after my studies, but after a decade is became an arbitrator on behalf of construction contractors in both United Kingdom and Kenya from 2008,” he said.
He said apart from launching across the county campaigns, he is planning to be in the Supreme Court from Jnaury 18-20 for BBI Supreme Court appeals.
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