- Twaha said his county is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Jubilee administration following the successful implementation of key flagship projects.
- He said the education levels have also gone up as well as specialised services introduced in health services in the county.
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Lamu Governor Fahim Twaha has expressed confidence that the Jubilee Party will carry the day in his region.
Coast has for a long time been an ODM zone, but in the last election, Jubilee won two governor seats in Lamu and Kwale.
Deputy President William Ruto bolted out of Jubilee and has since been campaigning for UDA.
Speaking to journalists in Malindi on Sunday, Twaha said Jubilee will win the majority of the seats in Lamu.
The governor refuted claims the party is dead in his county, saying it is the outfit which will carry the day in the August 9 general election.
Twaha, who is the only Coast governor still the Jubilee after the exit of Kwale Governor Mvurya, said the party is still popular, particularly in Lamu.
Mvurya ditched Jubilee and joined Deputy President Ruto’s UDA party and is now busy campaigning for the Kenya Kwanza coalition in the Coast region.
Twaha said the achievements of the Jubilee administration in terms of delivering landmark projects has made it popular with residents.
“Here in Lamu we have a tarmac road that goes from Minjila to Mokowe and has also gone to Mpeketoni town," he said.
"We have a dual carriage to the port, the Lapsset project we built and electricity everywhere. We have also surveyed huge chunks of land and title deeds are on the way.”
Jubilee Party, which is chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta, is in the coalition of Azimio la Umoja whose presidential flagbearer is Raila Odinga of ODM.
Twaha said his county is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Jubilee administration following the successful implementation of key flagship projects.
Further, he said the education levels have also gone up as well as specialised services introduced in health services.
Twaha said Uhuru utilised his 10 years in office well and managed to deliver to Kenyans and hoped the next government would do the same or even more than that.
At the county level the governor said since he took office he has managed to deliver key legacy projects and if given a chance would do more for the people of Lamu.
He said there are so many achievements in different sectors, including health where he issued NHIF to 20,000 families, adding that Universal Healthcare Coverage started in Lamu and is already working.
In the previous budget, he said his administration added another 2,000 families to the NHIF to ensure residents access health care easily.
On education, he said any student who scores 300 marks and above is given scholarship from Form 1 to Form 4 leaving the parent to pay fare and blankets.
He said Lamu is currently faced with a major human resource challenge, with very few residents having right qualification.
Twaha also said his administration has ensured they supply water to Lamu East for the first time with each household receiving piped water.
(Amol Awuor)