• Mwago said he wants to major in helping young business traders.
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Starehe MP aspirant Amos Mwago says growing up in the city makes him eligible for the seat, unlike his opponents.
Mwago, who is vying via the Jubilee party, is seeking to unseat Charles Jaguar.
Speaking to Word Is, he said he has been involved in politics in the University of Nairobi.
"You don't choose where you grow up. I was raised in Gikomba market by my mum as a single mum. Well-wishers paid part of my school fees," he said.
"In Starehe, we have been on the ground for many years, even by helping other aspirants in creating strategies. I now want to go to the ground and addresses some of the issues that have not been touched."
He recently made headlines after he was booed during an Azimio Starehe campaign trail headed by nominated MP Maina Kamanda, Embakasi East MP Babu Owino and Makadara MP George Aladwa. He was a UDA member until recently, when he decamped from the party.
"I am better placed since I was born and raised in Starehe," he said.
Sharing his manifesto, Mwago said he wants to major in helping young business traders.
"We have a dysfunctional system that businesspeople like boda bodas and hawkers in Starehe are not allowed to work in peace. In my leadership, we have to sit down and come up with measures that will help people."
Asked about who is funding his campaign, Mwago said Starehe people believe in his leadership.
"I have been a youth leader in Kamukunji and well-wishers are offering to support me financially to buying campaign materials and so on," he said.
"We are looking at Starehe as the navel of Nairobi. We want to protect our business people by allocating them somewhere to work from instead of chasing them away. If we can source more ways to find capital for youth to set up jobs, that is what I want to try and solve."
Mwago asked Kenyans to shun from tribal politics. "I got a scar on my face campaigning for a political aspirant in 2017," he said.