My salary will go to Embakasi East's poor, orphans - Babu Owino

A file photo of Opposition leader Raila Odinga introducing Babu Owino at a rally. /FILE
A file photo of Opposition leader Raila Odinga introducing Babu Owino at a rally. /FILE

Embakasi East aspirant and former Sonu leader Babu Owino has said he will use his salary to help the poor and orphans if he wins.

Babu (ODM) added

he is ready to transform leadership by youths should he win the seat after the election next Tuesday.

"I have grown up and known what lack means. I, therefore, made a pledge to my people that what I will earn will go directly to them to help meet the needs of the [underprivileged such as orphans]," he said during an interview on Kiss FM on Thursday.

"People in the semi-urban and slum areas lack basic amenities such as water. We will help address and have monthly cleaning exercises to avoid diseases like cholera."

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Babu further appealed to voters to reject Jubilee come August 8, saying Opposition leader Raila Odinga has a solution for Kenya's problems.

"We are banking on Kenyans to make the right decision of electing a people's government so we can end the hardship we have all witnessed in this regime."

Babu will face seven other candidates who are Jubilee's Francis Mureithi, Francis Masinde, George Butto, Boniface Nyagaka, Joash Omwenga, Phillip Bosire, and Nyamasi Lukas Baridi.

In the 2013 general election, he contested for the Westlands’s parliamentary seat but lost to Tim Wanyonyi.

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