{"id":116061,"date":"2025-06-05T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/orengo-leads-siaya-leaders-to-state-house-for-talks-with-president-ruto\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:03:46","slug":"orengo-leads-siaya-leaders-to-state-house-for-talks-with-president-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/orengo-leads-siaya-leaders-to-state-house-for-talks-with-president-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Orengo Leads Siaya Leaders to State House for Talks with President Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya \u2013 June 6<\/strong> \u2013 Siaya Governor James Orengo on Thursday led a delegation of county leaders to State House, Nairobi, for talks with President William Ruto on development priorities\u2014just days after publicly criticising the broad-based government pact with ODM leader Raila Odinga.<\/p>\n<p>Orengo has previously dismissed such engagements as unnecessary lobbying, insisting that national government projects are a constitutional right for all regions\u2014not favours to be granted in exchange for political loyalty or praise-singing.<\/p>\n<p>And following a political agreement between his party ODM and President Ruto, Orengo and the party\u2019s Secretary General Edwin Sifuna have been vocal against it sparking political tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Their critical stance placed them at odds with several MPs from Siaya County as well as with Energy Cabinet Secretary and ODM Secretary-General Opiyo Wandayi, further highlighting divisions within the party over how to engage with the Kenya Kwanza administration.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Thursday\u2019s meeting with President Ruto, Orengo held consultations with National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi to align on Siaya\u2019s development priorities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeld discussions with CS John Mbadi on development priorities in Siaya ahead of tomorrow\u2019s meeting with President Ruto together with a delegation of Siaya leaders,\u201d he posted on Facebook.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya \u2013 June 6 \u2013 Siaya Governor James Orengo on Thursday led a delegation of county leaders to State House, Nairobi, for talks with President William Ruto on development priorities\u2014just days after publicly criticising the broad-based government pact with ODM leader Raila Odinga. Orengo has previously dismissed such engagements as unnecessary lobbying, insisting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}