i really much abundantly got oh, well, don't worry. we'll start up again soon. unders legal football action goals all in on kick off starts august 9th here on d w. finally, this is a special edition of d, w. news. africa coming to you from naval. can go to the pulled in a high stakes election next week. but when roll politicians we rented, mod and ganga sharpening their marketing as but police officers turn a blind eye. can the school be fully free and fair? with the 2 leading presidential candidates, neck and neck, we ask,

who's in the running, where do they come from and what do they stand for? and will voting in the selection really make a difference? i'll sit down with canyons and ask them, do they have faith in politics and politicians also coming up on the show? it's been part of the political game. there's having a well known name help and independent gets elected. well, i've left high and dry without party political backing and just wanting 5 of kind of parliament terean's or female. why are so few women being elected to public office? we meet an aspiring women's representative who says that have to change a welcome to nairobi and welcome to a special coverage of democracy in action right here in kenya. my name is edith you money. now, this election season is an exceptional time. thousands of politicians fighting for

a thief either in parliament or county assemblies of governors and senators, even as a country president and millions of kenya's, a fighting for survival of price is due to the drought. the pandemic, and the war in ukraine. but violence, both verbal and physical can also be a vote when some politicians pay to have their opponents wrapped up or shut down by hiring an armed gang or even renting them all the w mario miller file. this special report from a will be election season and kenya means money making season kenyans, who was struggling to survive, earn a living by cheering for a candidate. it doesn't matter which party, as long as the money is right, it's not about the ology. it's about putting food on the table. single mother, marina. we know mobilizes crowds whenever obese women representative she,

me until they get like a 100 women. the ladies who just blamed themselves the difficulties they have in the home the place so that we met him with just not been both. been down after that, at least to you've been some cause when a good day, each woman goes home with around $4.00 to $9.00, says marine enough to feed a family for about 3 days. women make a part of the registered voters. it's why it's important for politician to win them over. we don't have any job like 4 children that's supposed to go back to school. we didn't have any money. so when we had to run you somewhere, we live around 40. but it's not only women who are paid by politician criminal gangs around, nor will be do their best business during election season. they're hired by incumbent and firing m p. 's governors and even potential candidates. they tell us

without arsenal violence, without us being sent to intimidate others. these politicians would never be where they are. these gang leaders claim they can mobilize a 1000 men for a political rally. if a politician wants his opponents vote is scared, we use canes. if there are 50 supporters, we have 30 people around them. we start beating them. the majority gets scared and go back home. he sent us this video from a couple of weeks ago. his gang preparing for a rally, armed with sticks. one carries a pistol. it often ends in a confrontation with the police. ah, earlier this year they were paid to attack supporters of presidential candidate william router. the canada says the goal was to disturb his rally to make it clear

that this was his opponents, tough. a pelham entry candidate was injured. brutal blamed a dingo for the violence writing. he hired innocent, desperate and jobless young people to shed innocent blood. he's not wrong, the gang leader says, if they could earn money a better way, they would. sometimes they even get assassination requests. he says you'll get an offer of a few 1000000 shillings, tens of thousands of euros to kill someone or to cut off body parts. if i amputate your leg, you'll have to deal with that for the rest of your life. you'll probably never get tempted to run for political position again. oh, for the killings they sometimes higher row police officers. he claims they help with the cover up. we approached the canyon police to confront them with this claim, but they did not respond to repeated interview requests. now did elizabeth, why there i was running for a seat in the county assembly marrow

b i o. when she went to cause to vote during nominations in april, she was attacked by an angry mob. i remember being pulled from one side and led as we're pulling my hair was as you can see i, i had below some fuel as strides of my hat. so i was really painful because i'm head tis a desire touches and mothers had dead gone. they took her clothes and assaulted her sexually. she says she was so terrified, she gave up her candidacy. i had been people been killed. i had seen people get in last saw this kind of things really made me feel so bad. so it really, it really intermittently been myself. yeah. she shows as a death threat she received on social media after the attack before. so i actually received a lot of these messages. this says that after the, after the 14,

i would get lost, like no one would find me. in recent months, there have been reports of aspiring politicians who've been attacked or found dead . electoral commissioner, justice ne, i says the practice of politicians hiring thugs is only possible because there's no real accountability if people can be stopped and caused to vote for somebody else. obviously that is lawlessness. the only thing that we can do is appeal to the government of the day to make sure that people are not intimidated. critic say these practices are undermining the democratic election process that people paid to do this. say they are too poor and hungry. they don't have a choice. ah, the choice is that the ballot box and the biggest prize there is

a presidency. the incumbent we're looking at is stepping down because he's not allowed to run for a 3rd term. who can guarantee the new president from this election? although the leading figures a very familiar faces, full candidates vying and the night before the general election, the 2 leading candidates, deputy president, william, brutal and veteran opposition. nita ry loading. let's start with right. loading. the 77 year old is a veteran of canyon politics from the 1980s. you paid a major role in the opposition movement for a multi party democracy during the authoritarian rule of kenya's. then president, daniel arab boy, i think i feel so far in his 4 attempts at the presidency, but the challenge, the legitimacy of the result, 3 time the dispute in 2007 let the deadly clashes, which killed over 1200 displays more than 600000. in the current campaign thing

as promising to fight corruption and poverty deliver better health care and education, and their roughly $50.00 monthly allowance for unemployed youth. his main challenge for the presidency is william rochelle. he has more humble beginnings and a set to have worn his 1st pair of shoes. at the age of 15. he sees himself as a man of the people, a voice for the average canyon against the establishment. though he is very much part of it. he's health key, political position for years. it was common and kind of politics. he has changed parties several times. even being part of right now didn't go campaign in 2007, the international criminal court charged him in connection with the violence that broke out after the vote. but the case later, the brutal current campaign is promising to prioritize the needs of the poor was suffering and storing food prices. he wants to invest in agriculture to help can produce its own food. he's also pledging jobs in the 0 corruption policy,

even though he has been repeatedly accused of corruption over the course of his career for voters and therefore for the leading candidates, perhaps the most pressing issue is for security presidential hopeful, william brutal sat down with the w mario miller, i believe, is the most competitive factor that we have in whether we will talk about di, you talk about coffee, talk about flowers, you do have a vegetables. we are competing internationally. that is absolutely no reason why we cannot produce enough for bays. no reason why for 1000000 canyons stuffing. what we're going to do is we have said in our plan, we're going to have to be under for being fund for farming ports. we are targeting 2000000 from us to day. they are net import us of food. we want them to produce enough for them to eat, and we want them to produce

a subclass for us to feed them. for his challenger, reino, dingo, the emphasis is less about feeding the market and more about feeding the masses with a central to us that people have food enough food. each way to see that you're going to fit reforms in aga cultural sector so that we move towards food self sufficiency as an issue. and here we are going to do some incentives and also some subsidies to the farmers so that they can be able to produce more. the problem as has been here are the farmers of failed. there should change in terms of assistance from towns with farming implement and also with the correct type of seeds and also for the laser. so bringing down the cost or for anyone to contextualize,

what's really at stake in the selection we've brought together a group of canyons drawn from different backgrounds to explain to us what really matters to them or rather, or for some of them. what's not important. this selection, so i just want to quickly take a poll who is definitely going to vote the selection, etc. sheila, i'm very surprised to see that you're going to vote in many discussions. you had given me the impression that voting was not an option for you. i kind of did k mccoy feel like i can vote for all right. so for the rest of you here, imagine you have candidates where you really feel passionately about what are the issues that you think they're going to resolve that haven't been resolved yet. joseph let stuck with you with i believe the coastal flipping is going on. cool. down. as always for the last 2 for the last minute. yes. because this is the done. yeah. life has gone very down. i

want someone really, really knew someone who hasn't been there before so that it is a mistake that of me working for them and then government a consequence. but if i haven't made sticky notes, then that means i had to be accountable for would have for anything or when i tried to dig out and maybe try to find some news from the youth. most of them i really jokers, which is healing them to involve themselves in crime and some of us us and also something is done to live. it's the construction of our lending institutions, like colleges, maybe. yeah. so that one really hope that you. okay. so what i'm hearing you guys talk about all sounds very familiar to me as a canyon and also on the continent of africa. but some are what makes you think the best time around your preferred candidates of choice is going to make a difference that most to the same round of the send it to take up their letter and they really know, wait. so when we talk about the younger candidates,

we're obviously not talking about the presidential candidates in this case. so you mean you're parliamentary and more local leaders? yeah. okay. sure. you said earlier that you think the new entrance into the ring or that one of the new entrance is probably going to be the solution barrow for you. are you hopeful, given the, the systems haven't changed? i don't think it's in terms of is everything. i just think is a 1st face, 1st ideas, as opposed to the norm, but we've had for the past 10 and more years. all right, so should we assume then that everybody on this table is voting for new fresh faces? who only happened to be to? is that the assumption for making at this table? because otherwise, you're voting for the theme crop of leadership that has existed in kenya, near b, u, from almost the mouth this, but in loud wharton farm with call protest. so i did, unfortunately not. that's what i saw on the question as to what are you protesting

against the corruption route in these countries with which it's really for tumors and also the livingston that was before when we talk about corrupt from lake area everywhere, you will see you on 2 blocks what on identification card you are you love to be if you want them to work for you to love to be like every kisses you're so it's really offered to us, okay. and citizens. and these could actually be the issues that are affecting a lot of young people because in october of this year, the independent electoral boundaries commission, that's the electoral body here in kenya began a process of registering new voters. the hope was that they would get 6000000 new names to that register by the end of february of 2022. when they were closing that register, they had only managed to get 2500000 new registered voters. however, as up was happening, digital, the famous people, boasting probably more numbers and to put 5000000 through their names in the ring. and so they wanted to become politicians. well,

i caught up with some of them and i want to find out if they believe that they can convert lakes to votes. i'm with jesse jasper, more than me is just in time for the last dance, as this family event winds down in kenya's highlands. what on me aspires to be a member of parliament, and after everyone has relaxed, he takes a microphone to do what he really came here for to campaign my parents bodenal's were young and come in. the community actually raised me. they took me to school and i have to give buck with what with my life and mother me is no stranger to the microphone. as m. c. jesse, one of kenya's, best known comedians charlie morning, a kayak, one occupant. he has a strong following booth on stage and online as a fanny man on the campaign trail. he leaves his manifesto interest, sketch ah,

compelling even passes by to stay and listen. being famous actually goes a long way, cuz over 65 percent of my company is because of the name that by the grace of god. i got as mc jesse's when i came here, i had to tell them jiffy is my actual name. doug. reach itself is where the urban sprawl feeds into rural poverty. john, be quick. i an independent candidate and popular radio show host his frustrations daily. as parliamentary candidate, she grew up here and has plans for the area. she's hoping her shared experience with local voters will give her the edge she needs to win. but as an independent, she finds it difficult to campaign on issues. you know, having an issue with campaign when you don't have money and you will go for meetings and people will be disappointed because you didn't leave something or you didn't offer them something because that's how our politics has been. in our designed mark bigler runs a research and marketing consultancy,

nairobi. he wants that a famous name on its own is not enough to get anyone over the finishing line. now they might be nationally known what the social media falling is before voting. and so i want to follow you, i like what you had to say when i listen to the radio. when i saw you on the tv, what the bottle will be on, on the guns, love to come in when it by, you know, basically winning hearts and minds and probably in, to some extent being on the right political party of that particular piece. because that might even play a bigger role than your mainstream media background. so these are sort of a dynamic that i think have a role to be back in south. the mentee, the local council of elders, is throwing a big party to formerly endorsed jessie as their preferred parliamentary candidate . ah, the political rookie invokes his popularity to energize the crowd. am i possessed to be leaving fame and money for politics? he asks the crowd that one, 0, they respond. you're not,

you're not. you see, assurance. he needs that they'll vote for him. and so i'd like to continue that conversation and pick up where we left off in that story and just hear from the panel that we have here. do you believe in leadership of young people? joseph, let me ask you 1st. would you vote for a member of parliament was 23 years old? why not? from the experience, half hug. all those young guys, if i can talk about my local m c r. soon as he gets elected, instead of coming back to the people, she goes and start buying big cas drinking high life. and that'll a drill this morning. you can get into his homestead. they dont associate with the dental. okay. melody can i get your views on the same, or you of the opinion that young people can or cannot, leads the kindly and a truly believe that some people are born leaders doesn't matter if you're much

older, much younger, but i do believe that they need to work together, where does a young person a young aspirant get a track record from? i suppose it's the same question that people who are trying to get into the job market as well as the experience come from. if you don't hire me, i can use myself as an example. i'm currently 2 to 6 years old. i have a track record the offer holding piece campaigns in my community. i also have a trick track record of being a mentor for the young girls. so it doesn't have to be a language or something huge that can be seen by the people, but at least something that you have done to the community. okay. yeah, just if i want to come to you because we saw in the last election cycle, boniface one v vying to become a member of parliament and activist, well known here in the country. and he said unfortunately, people didn't vote for him because they always wanted money. said we want to somebody who's rich, what do we want? somebody who has a tractor or is for me,

it really doesn't matter very to or want to my does he is when you're getting back to like place. are you ready? like to make the change to the community, are you ready to give back to the community? how do we make sure that as citizens we are keeping our leaders accountable? joseph to our from us in the middle where we are, we go back and stop asking them what have you done. we want. ringback that is lead, i'm there, go, i'm the try not have to, we are left leave. that is how do you hold someone accountable when you can't access their houses, access, assist them anywhere you want to call them? you want to get to the office. you can see them with a waitlist to see where it's so frustrating. yes, it's so frustrating. she'll let everyone is, do we are allowed. protest allows to protest, but you know, as another step on the streets, what happens is like if i can't even protest and it's my right, how do you and me, how am i supposed to reach out if you're not going to let me come to your house

you're not going to give me a forum, and now i can't even protest because i'm going to be going to short. so why are we having the selection? who is it before? we really want to see this new blood due to what the, the new blood bringing on the table. what are the people like to gain from this new blood melody? mike went to you in the last trough like we are at the end. if, if something doesn't change, it's just going to kill just plan a new need hoping. and we see that it is hoping that they will do something. but up, up, up, we go back to this, but it's not good for the next 5 years to punish them like i'm punishing the pain. so i guess that's where we're going to wrap this discussion melody and joseph, joseph chavez. just alma, thank you for your time. yes, we are going to vote, but as a form of punishment, something you have never heard. ah,

women in kenya have a hard time in politics. as we saw earlier, the show intimidation is widespread. well, can actually introduced a quarter for women in parliament in 2010, but it's never been fulfilled. did up the correspondence? felix marine got caught up with a woman candidate who is determined to change that in kenya's amble county. fighting for the rights of women, suzanne battalions hoping to become king as young as 3 men representative, therefore, to 7 female members of parliament, elected by all vote. as in kenya's counties intended to address under representation of women in politics. you, terry sees experiences of growing up in a rural community as had driving force experience is over carrying water experiences over growing up. we singled my best single moms. we doublet yields. that is what really motivated me to go for this position on the campaign trail. schmidt's women hotel, how, what needs to change if she gets into office. yeah. at least create jobs for us.

and even if they're menial, you can get a pay slip. yeah. even if it's only $50.00 a month, it can help a lot. when susan goes to parliament, i want her to lobby the government for us to have a department where we can work with as women. so we can help ourselves can. and politics is dominated by men, attempts to guaranteed representation for women have failed, or buck fired. so then guitar receives this has to change, we add a, this, letty are not there yet. so i would encourage more and more young women to go for this position, elective position to be specific. before we can women candidates still fall far behind men in securing campaign funding in kenya, but says marci, suzanne sister, incomplete manager, they're becoming that challenge to being an independent candidate. also finances by to have hired a really good support from the people who understand her and who have hired

a brief history about her in the was active ability. these widespread prejudice about age and gender. but susan's father is determined for his daughter to succeed at that you know, she might be young, but i'll let her do what she needs to do because i can't restrict her. since she's competent, i'll let her keep going. susan guitar is not new to politics. she's been a grassroots activist since her student des, promoting dialogue awareness of women's health issues in an end to gender based violence. when i go to police, i'll blake to push for good productive health to ensure that women have access to sanjay towers to improve their dignity. one seats. one woman in the desire to change things for the better for women in amber county. so then deter it is on a journey to the present. women in the ken and parliament. thank you for choosing dw news africa collection special. that's it. now from all of us in a row, be be sure to check out or other stories on d, w dot com,

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