By Nyanza Wire 
Deputy Chief of Staff Eliud Owalo has reprimanded a section of Nyanza leaders engaged in supremacy battles, eyeing the kingpin title for the region.
Speaking on Saturday, December 13, 2025, Owalo called out a section of the leaders for misleading the region into supremacy politics instead of advocating for economic empowerment.
Owalo argued that the said leaders were only pushing their vested interests, yet the region requires proper investment to uplift the livelihoods of the residents.
“We really need to have some focus as a people. We do not want negative, retrogressive, parochial and ego-centric interests in the name of a political kingpin,” Owalo stated.
“Kingpin for what, if the people are suffering and are not getting tangible economic benefits, why do you want to lead people who are impoverished?” he posed.
Eliud Owalo called on the leaders from the region to put their differences aside and forge a united path aimed at driving meaningful development.
He warned that supremacy battles and the politics of a kingpin would not benefit the region.
“Our focus must change to the politics of economy, not the selfish politics of a political kingpin; that will not take us anywhere,” Owalo retorted.
Joshua Nyamori