Mombasa governor Ali Hassan Joho addresses Maa people of Naroosura, in Narok county, during NASA rally, June 28, 2017. [Photo: Ali Hassan Joho]
Mombasa governor Ali Hassan Joho, accompanied Nasa principals to Narok county, for a campaign tour, Wednesday.
He said just like other Kenyans, the Maa community in the Rift Valley county have been marginalised, despite being promised a lot of development projects and equal resource distribution by the sitting Jubilee government.
"The Maasai of Narok share a common destiny with the rest of Kenya. They have been the victims of state marginalization in resource allocation, in land distribution and conservation," Joho said, as they toured Naroosura and Emurua Dikirr constituency.
He asked them to vote for a Nasa governmnet, led by Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka.
"The coast and the Maa people share a bitter past. We have both borne the brunt of land deprivation in Kenya. We are both the victims of a declining tourism sector. Only Nasa can correct this. Only Nasa can make this right," he said.
But for a culture of proud farming and agriculture, Joho indicated Emurrua Dikir had little to show for its time in and under the Jubilee government.
He noted the Jubilee government oversaw a serious staple food shortage, adding that Unga and sugar were currently at prices never before seen in Kenya."A Nasa government shall intervene in the agricultural value chain by targeted value chain development to lower these prices. Subsidies should not be issued to the highest citizens but to the lowest ones. The farmers and citizens that need it. I pray that on 8/8/2017, the people of Kenya vote for a government that cares, a government that intervenes in a timely manner, and a government that protects its people. That government is a Nasa government," said the ODM deputy party leader.