The business community in Eldoret town and its environs have urged Uasin Gishu governor Jackson Mandago who was inaugurated on Monday not to victimize them over their political positions in the just concluded general election.
They expressed fear that plans were underway to punish them for taking a different political stand in the choice of gubernatorial candidate during the electioneering period.
Speaking in Eldoret town, the traders who include, lock up shops owners, second hand cloth dealers and hawkers have asked the governor to embrace them in his leadership.
“The fact that some of us voted for a different gubernatorial candidate in the just concluded election rather than the incumbent does not mean we hate him but we were just exercising our democratic rights,” said a lock up shop owner who declined to be named for fear of being victimized.
He said that recent statements attributed to some politic class allied paints a picture of tough time for the business community operating in the region.
