Kabogo political rivals intensify campaigns ahead of Friday primaries
Just a week to the Jubilee Party primaries, politicians allied to “United 4 Kiambu” hit the campaign trail in Thika Town Constituency to boost Ferdinand Waititu (Baba Yao)’s prospects of becoming the next governor of Kiambu County.
Flanked by Rev. Dr. David K. Ngari (Gakuyo), Dr. James Nyoro and Aquiline Njoki, the politicians’ caravan rolled from Ngoliba, through the streets of Thika to Starehe grounds where they addressed a mammoth rally.
The four promised to build Kiambu County anew with their 5-point manifesto that touched among other things, poverty eradication, improved infrastructure, industrial revolution and better education for Kiambu residents.
They promised to do away with all bottlenecks that were introduced by the current government led by Governor William Kabogo which they said had stifled economic growth within the county.
“As the people of Kiambu County, there is no better persons to represent your interests and improve your living standards than this team led by Baba Yao. You have suffered for the last 4½ years under this regime. Statistics now show that about 300,000 in this county sleep hungry every day. Businesses are collapsing due to punitive by-laws initiated by this government, yet over KES 40 billion has been given to the county to improve your lives,” said Dr. Nyoro.
Dr. Nyoro made a passionate appeal to the people of Kiambu to nominate Baba Yao with a thumping majority and offer “United 4 Kiambu” an opportunity to transform Kiambu County. He said that within their first year in office, they would allocate KES 500 million and KES 1 billion to Gatuanyaga and Ndeiya respectively, in order to transform the two areas into the county’s food baskets through irrigation programmes.
“Gatuanyaga and Ndeiya are two very productive areas that can feed the county with food if the right agricultural investment is initiated. We will inject KES 500 million to Gatuanyaga and KES 1 billion to Ndeiya to help create a food basket for this county and the nation at large,” he said.
Waititu castigated Governor Kabogo for propagation of an extremely divisive and destructive politics which had certainly weakened the secular fabric of the county. He lashed out at Kabogo’s government handling of the JAMOFASTA rent dispute and the Madaraka Market conflict that saw the market go down in flames, saying that once elected, his government would relook into these issues to ensure that an amicable solution was reached.
