MP closes clubs, sends home 200 employees after two months
Timba XO Club associated with Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi has sent home more than 200 workers after being closed down following last week’s incident in which angry youths stormed the multi-million-shilling entertainment joint and looted it during the violent demonstrations against the Finance Bill.
Among those affected by the closure of the Club located at the Annex area along the busy Eldoret-Nakuru highway are scores of female workers the MP had brought from neighbouring Uganda.
The club was opened in May in a ceremony that was graced by several MPs allied to the ruling Kenya Kwanza.
The youths who were armed with stones and other crude weapons destroyed glass walls, windows and doors of the imposing two-storey facility that also houses a car wash.
They had marched from Eldoret town’s Central Business District to the club before destroying it in a daring daylight incident.
Some of the youths carted away expensive items among them screen TV sets, gas cookers, chairs and alcoholic drinks. Dozens of police officers drawn from the administration and regular command units watched the unfolding drama from a distance.
The anti-finance bill protesters claimed that they were angered by the decision by several MPs from the region, among them Sudi, to support the controversial Finance Bill which President William Ruto has since declined to assent to.
While condemning the vandalism and looting of property at his club, Sudi said he had suspended all his development activities.
The MP said the massive losses occasioned by the raid at his club, which he put at Sh200 million, had forced him to close it down and terminate the services of all the employees.
