24/03/2017
Asalam caleykum warahmatullahi wanataka tuhu.
With colleagues during the launch of the Economic freedom party in mandera's Geneva grounds last Sunday.
As always this election is about building bridges, it's about strengthening our hard earned unity, it's about defeating impunity perpetuated by power hungry incumbents, it's about defeating dehumanizing and abject poverty, it's about creating hope where there is none, it's about standing firm in the face of tyranny and depression.
As expected there are those pessimistic lot who believe we cannot achieve all this. Together i understand the skepticism. After all, every five years candidates vying for different positions make similar promises and I expect this year will be no different. All of us will travel around the county unveiling ten-point plans and making grand speeches. All of us will trumpet those qualities we believe make us uniquely qualified to lead.
But too many times after the election is over and the coffetti is swept away all those promises fade from memory, and the lobbyists and the special interests moves in, and the people turn away dissapointed, dissolutioned as before, left to struggle on there own.
This is why this campaign is not only about me, it's about us, it must be about what we can do together. This campaign must be the occassion, the vehicle of our hopes and dreams. It will take your time, your energy and your advice to push us forward when we're doing right and to let us know when we're not. This election has to be about reclaiming our lost glory, restoring our sense of common purpose and tackle the few obstacles ( FIRFIRSA ) been one and to withstand the power of millions of voices yearning for change.
By myself alone, this change seems illusive and will not happen, divided we're bound to fail, that's why I request your support to effect this change together. But the life of a tall, gangly, self made career civil servant like myself and like minded TOKKUMA colleagues tells me that a different future is possible, that there is power in words, there is power in conviction, there is power in hope, that beneath all this struggles and differences we are one people, that is what ECONOMIC FREEDOM PARTY is all about.
To my supporters in TAKABA WARD who believe in my ability to uplift the lives of the citizenry, we have a responsibility to win this battle, the battle for better schools, better gainful employment for our youths neglected by the current administration, better social protection programmes for our elderly, destitutes and disadvantaged members of our society, better Medicare for all with out forgetting provision of safer drinking water for our people, sad to think of millions of our people starving when we have billions in our county coffers, this again is perpetuated by inept current administration whose main agenda is thievery and embezzlement of public purse. We have a huge responsibility to vote them out, we have a responsibility to re write our history by defeating puppets, power hungry politicians, impunity, war lords, robbers, briefcase government and replace them with people focused, servant leadership where accountability, transparency and employment on merit is the standard.
I want us to take up unfinished business of perfecting our unity under the TOKKUMA( WADHAJIRKA ) ideology and building a better and prosperous Takaba. Together starting from today let us finish the work that needs to be done and usher a new birth of freedom and hope in Takaba and mandera county as whole.
It's your right to engage me on any issue you want to seek clarification about.
Dear electorates of Takaba ward I seek your vote in this forthcoming general election and by extension vote for all TOKKUMA nominees accross our expansive county of mandera.
Thank you everyone.
HON BISHAR MAALIM ABDULLAHI (BIMA)
GCOE NOMINEE
MCA TAKABA WARD 2017
