The majority voiceless people of Mandera have endured hardship brewed by incompetent leaders - MPs, MCAs, Senators- who couldn’t make head or tail of governance. Leaders who have nothing to offer but hardship, bad governance and insecurity. The hardship in Mandera didn’t start with Roba’s administration. It started way back but it has in fact been made more naked-sticking out like sore thumb by Roba’s County government.
Mandera county is one of the best managed counties in NEP but that’s like the best among the worst if the funds allocated to Mandera in the last 9 years is anything to go by. Just like his first, Roba’s second tenure is an emblem of hardship and insecurity. His 3rd tenure via “a project of the profligate incumbent” as Senator @BK puts it, will be the same as the second or even worse!
Except one of the candidates, all the other contestants mentioned by the former Senator of Mandera who is not blameless as far as the country leadership is concerned, have been tried and tested in one way or another.
It’s too early to predict who will be Mandera’s 2nd Governor but the entry of Waziri Adan Mohamed into the race is definitely a game changer! A man who has reached the apex of the corporate world and a CS post to boot, there’s no doubt that he will help turn around the failing County, 009. If success is measurable, Adan Mohamed has probably achieved what every brainy professional wants to achieve. Unlike the majority who join politics for the sake of it, Adan must be ‘retiring’ to make his home county a better place. He has the skills, knowhow and the network to just do that. He must have been waiting for this moment!
Mandera has a choice to either take a leap forward forward or suicidal dive in River Dawa and that’s what Roba and his project represent.
