Elmi addressed residents on Saturday when he made stopovers at Abdi Waqo, Anole, Banadir, Wargadud and Eldas town in Eldas subcounty.
He was accompanied by Eldas ODM parliamentary candidate Ahmed Boray and Senate candidate Abdirahman Adhan of UPIA.
Elmi said the two critical sectors need serious, urgent and proper management.
“The level of underdevelopment and suffering of our people is incomprehensible. It is plain robbery. Can we sink any lower than that? This is a very dark chapter in our history, that we must rewrite. It cannot be ignored,” he said.
He urged voters to choose leaders who have been tried and tested saying, the people who orchestrated the failure and mismanaged resources are seeking re-election.
“It is regrettable that we still have patients from Wajir who are being referred to other facilities in other parts of the country for treatment,” he said.
“The referrals can be done here in Wajir, unfortunately, but that has not happened because there have been no proper structures put in place to improve our facilities and this boils down to poor leadership.”
Elmi promised to fully decentralise the water sector to ensure it is well funded and officials delegated to such kinds of work.
He promised to partner with the national government in building dams that will store rainwater for a long period and dig more boreholes across the county.
Boray urged the electorates to support Elmi saying his experience and performance in both public and private sectors put him way above the rest who are competing against him.
Last week Elmi who comes from the populous Fai subclan of the Degodia received a major boost after he was endorsed by Boray's team.
Boray, who is leading the 'team change', holds a lot of influence in his Reer Jiirow subclan.
Edited by Kiilu Damaris
