- Wajockoya picked Justina Wangui Wamae to be the country's second in command.
- Wamae who vied for the Mavoko parliamentary seat in the 2017 polls, said she will synergise the Wajackoya machine.
Roots party presidential aspirant George Wajackoyah has unveiled his running mate and rubbished the notion of a two-horse race in August polls.
Wajockoyah picked Justina Wangui Wamae and vowed to give every journalist a Mercedes Benz from the proceeds of Marijuana if elected president.
He said members of the fourth estate are poorly paid.
“They are paying journalists peanuts in very poor working conditions, for us we shall change that with a Mercedes Benz and eight-hour shift working plan,” he said.
Wamae, who vied for the Mavoko parliamentary seat in the 2017 said she will synergise the Wajackoyah campaign machine to capture the presidency in August.
“I have decided to work with Wajackoyah because we have a convergence of vision, to put money in the pockets of Kenyans by legalising farming and export of Majijuana,” Wamae told the Star in an interview.
She dismissed propositions that Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto are the main presidential contenders.
“The race has just begun, a combination of professor Wajackoyah and myself will give Raila and Ruto a run for their money,” she said.
Pitching for economic empowerment, the Roots presidential running mate insisted that the big market that bhang business will harness will trigger an economic revolution.
“We want to put money in the pockets of all Kenyans through the returns we shall get from bhang exports in the international market,” she said.
The Wajackoyah-Wamae ticket, they said, is the only combination that gives Kenyans hope by putting the economy at the centre of their agenda.
“Many mothers who have lost children to drug abuse will get some reprieve because the money earned from the sell of Marijuana will transform their economy and the medicinal value that will come with bhang,”she said.
Wajackoyah is the first presidential aspirant to unveil the running mate with the window to submit names of deputies to the IEBC extended to May 16.
“My decision to unveil my running mate this early should serve as a confirmation to those that have been sending emissaries that I join them,” Wajackoyah said.
Roots presidential aspirant said when he takes office he will launch a massive surgery at the department of immigration where he said corruption is the order of the day.
“Except for the director general whom I speak to regularly, most of the officers at the immigration office are corrupt and rotten,” he said, adding that he is completing his PhD in Immigration.
“I will tear the immigration department with my teeth, I will shuffle that department completely to deal with corruption.”
At the same time Wajackoyah said he will ensure all the flowers planted along the main highways are replaced with bhang.
“Those who want to plant flowers can do that at their homes, for us we shall plant bhang along the roads for commercial purposes,” he said.
The current law outlaws bhang farming for either private of commercial purposes in the country.
He says he will suspend sections of the constitution to provide an avenue to actualise his radical vision for the country.
"We shall suspend the constitution and then later allow Kenyans to decide on what they want," he said.
(Edited by Tabnacha O)