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| Young girls trekking to a water point in Kilifi |
His macho demeanor; his small built stature; his skinny
jeans reveal a socialite governor living a high end lavish lifestyle in the fast
lane. Dancing in opulence, Kingi is surrounded by a mass of poverty stricken
Kilifi residents who still walk kilometers before finding clean drinking water.
Scenes of women carrying jerrycans, trekking in the sweltering heat of the
coast sun, with children on their backs are day to day common feature of the
Coast County.
Welcome to Kilifi, Kingi’s kingdom of poverty, hopelessness
and desperation; where getting three square meals a day is a miracle.
Kilifi County has a population of 1.2M people which makes
2.9% of the total Kenyan population. The county has an average of 68% of
residents living below the poverty line, with other areas like Magarini, where
Governor Kingi comes from registering a poverty rate of 89%.
It has an infant mortality rate of 71 per 1000, among the
highest in the country.
Kingi has failed to reduce these figures
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| Kilifi women fetching muddy water in a shallow well |
The county has less than 10 doctors, less than 15 clinical
officers, less than 150 nurses. It has just 3 district hospitals and 2 sub-district
hospitals serving the 1.2million people. Many residents walk
long distances to find health services in the few scattered dispensaries and
health centers. Other health facilities built after devolution remain white
elephant projects. There is a major crisis of unfinished projects dotting county.
Kingi has failed to complete more than 80% of these projects
since he was elected governor in 2013.
The major economic activities are tourism, fishing, mining
crop farming and livestock production; with very huge potential to transform residents
fortunes. Kingi has failed to exploit these resources to uplift the
lives of his people
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| Governor Amason Jefwa Kingi |
The former Alliance High School student and a law graduate
from the University of Nairobi, has only succeeded in taking the county to the
headlines news of corruption, hunger, teenage pregnancies and disco matanga. He has succeeded in political narration in local dialect, in
funerals while burying the dead who die in poorly equipped county hospitals. He has failed to provide leadership to the Amijikenda
community, thus betraying their hopes and aspirations of having dignity as a
people.
A King ruling a Kingdom of poverty!
