Caption: Starehe MP aspirant Boniface Mwangi at a past protest. Photo/www.tuko.co.ke
Ukweli Party leader and popular activist Boniface Mwangi has urged the electorate not to elect corrupt leaders who are also drug dealers.
The aspiring Starehe MP said Kenyans are foolish for electing incompetent leaders and complaining about poor leadership. Mwangi lamented the culture of voting corrupt leaders based on their financial capabilities as opposed to ideologies.
"Those renown thieves, rapists and drug dealers are elected by citizens. Power belongs to citizens who complain of bad leadership. Go back to your villages and towns and elect the right people as MCAs and MPs. Let the people you elect declare their wealth and talk about their past so that you know what they have done....we must stop electing thugs,” Mwangi said.
The activist who has been harassed by the police advised the poor not to vote blindly.
“We must stop electing thugs because the thugs we are electing are mortgaging our future every single day. It is the people who elect these thugs and one of the biggest complains is that we don't have good leaders to elect, we don't have options,” the activist complained.
He said the MCAs and MPs are the custodians of the people’s funds thus must be chosen wisely.
"It is MCAs who will guard devolution and hold governors accountable. If we get the right MCAs your county will be progressive. It is the MPs who pass budgets and also do legislation and put checks and balances on the President and the Executive.
A county that has good MPs will progress,” Mwangi said.