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with the 2 leading presidential candidates, neck and neck, we asked, was in the running, where do they come from and what do they stand for? and will voting in this election really make a difference of canyons and ask them, do they have faith in politics and politicians also coming up on the show it's fame parts of the political game. there's having a well known name help and independent gets elected, or are they left high and dry without party political backing? and just wanting 5 of kind of parliamentarians or female, why are so few women being elected to public office? we meet an aspiring women's representative who says that has to change with welcome to nairobi and welcome to a special coverage of democracy in action. right here in kenya. name is edith. he

money. now, this election season in kenya is an exceptional time. thousands of politicians are 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 prices for due to the drought. the pandemic and the war in ukraine. but violence with verbal and physical can also be a vote when up to some politicians pay to have their opponents wrapped up or shut down by hiring an armed gun 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 was struggling to survive. earn a living by cheering for a candidates. it doesn't matter which party, as long as the money is right, it's not about ideology. it's about putting food on the table. single mother, marina. we know mobilizes crowds when i robbie's women representative. she normally

placed me until when, when can i get like a 100 women. the ladies little justice lamed and fill the difficulties, the have india home, the old place so that we met him with decimal. been those things don't after that athletes you, 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 up half of the registered voters. that's why it's important for politicians to win them over our suit. we don't have any jobs like for children. they're supposed to go back to school. we don't have any money. so and we had there is that run you somewhere. we live run for leads. but it's not only women who are paid by politicians, criminal gangs around there will be do their best business during election season. they're hired by incumbent and despairing and peas, governors,

and even presidential candidates. they tell us without house now. 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 political rally. if a politician won his opponents vote is scared. we use canes. if there are 50 supporters, we have 30 people surround them. we stop beating them. the majority gets scared and go back harm. he sent us this video from a couple of weeks ago. his gang preparing for a rally, armed with big one carry hip is it often ends in a confrontation with the police. ah. earlier this year they were paid to attack supporters of presidential candidates. william router that daniel de says, the goal was to disturb his rally,

to make it clear that this was his opponent. of elementary candidate was injured. router 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 his claim, but they did not respond to repeated interview requests. nadia elizabeth were there,

i was running for a seat in the county assembly my roby 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 missouri pulling my hair was as you can see i, i had better low some few as strides of my hat. so i was really painful because i'm head does that? does add torches and mothers head 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 have 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. see if people can be stopped and class 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. the people pay to do this, say they are too poor and hungry. they don't have a choice. i. the choice is that the ballot

box and the biggest prize, there is a presidency, the incumbent work and nasa 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 best general election, the 2 leading candidates deputy president, william, brutal and veteran opposition leda loading. let's start with 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 also retiring rule of kenya's then president daniel boy, i think i fail so far in his 4 attempts at the presidency. but the challenge, the legitimacy of the resolve 3 times the dispute in 2007 let the deadly clashes, which killed over 1200, the place more than 600000 in the current campaign. dingoes,

promising to fight corruption and poverty deliver better health care and education, and the roughly $50.00 monthly allowance for unemployed youth. his main challenge for the presidency is william, brutal. he has more humble beginnings and a set of war and 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. even though he is very much part of it. he's health key, political position for years. it was common and can in politics. he has changed parties several time. 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, late the collapse, the brutal curtain campaign, is promising to prioritize the needs of the poor was suffering under 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 vote. 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. agriculture is the most competitive sector that we have in canada. whether it, when it took about tea, the coffee about flower should be a vegetable. we are competing internationally. that is absolutely no reason why we cannot produce enough for bays. no reason why for 1000000 canyons, staffing. what we're going to do is we have faith in our plan. we're going to have at 2000000100 for being fund for farm inputs. we are targeting 2000000 from us to day. they are net import us of foot. we want them to produce enough for them

to eat and we want them to produce supplies for us to feed them. for his challenger, relo, dingo. the emphasis is less about feeding the market and more about feeding the masses. this is what is central to us that people have food enough food to eat or that's why we will see that you're going to create reforms in other casual sector so that we move towards food self sufficiency as a nation. 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, that the farmers of field should change in terms of assistance from times with farming implement. and also with the correct type of seeds and

also for delays or so bringing down the coastal for to, 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 to the 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. we really feel passionately about one of the issues that you think they are going to resolve that haven't been resolved yet. joseph, let's start with you with i believe the cost or flipping is gonna go down a voice for the last 2 for the last minute. yes. because this is that them. 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. i can take that. 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 holding them to involve themselves in crime and some of us us and also something is not to live. it's the construction of our lending institutions, like colleges, maybe. yeah. so that one would really help the youth. 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 that this time around your preferred candidates of choice is going to make a difference. but most to the same round of the send it to take up there to

positions and they really new weight. 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 entrants into the ring or that one of the new entrance is probably going to be the solution bearer for you. are you hopeful, given that the systems haven't changed? i don't think it's in terms of who is everything. i just think his 1st face 1st ideas as opposed to the norm, but we've heard 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 happen to be 2? is that the assumption for making this table? because otherwise, you're voting for the theme crop of leadership that has existed in kenya, near b, e from, or mr. math, who's playing loud. i'm voted from with call protest. so the credit

for doing the not with us on the phone with the question as to what are you protesting against corruption route in these countries, very home of which it's really through tonight's own. so the living stand it was before when we took a boat out from lake area everywhere. even let's see you on to our blo children identification card. you are, you love to be if you want them to work for you to love to be like every kisses. so it's really offered to us ok on 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 tenure begun 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 that was happening, digital, the famous people, boasting probably more numbers and to put 5000000 through their names in the ring

and said 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 was on me, aspires to be a member of parliament. and after every one has relaxed, he takes a microphone to do what he really came here for to campaign. my parents died when i was very young and come in, the community actually raised me. they took me to school and have to give buck with what with my life and maloney is no stranger to the microphone. as m. c. jesse, one of kenya's, best known comedians about charlie more than 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 because of 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 rate 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 as people were voting and say, 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 grounds, to 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 been amex that i think have a role to be back in south the meant the local council of elders is throwing a big party to formerly endorsed jesse 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 deal this morning you can get into his homestead. they dont associate with the animal. okay. melody, can i get your views on the same? are you of the opinion that young people can or cannot lead the candy?

and a truly believed 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 26 years old. i have a track record the offer, holding piece campaigns in my community. i also have a track track record of being a mentor for the young girls. so it doesn't have to be elijah 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 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 a citizens we are keeping our leaders accountable, joseph to our, from their process in the middle where we are, we go back and stop asking them what have you done. we want. ringback that is that under 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. we want to get to the office. you can see them the waitlist to see where it's so frustrating. yes, of the so frustrating should let everyone to we are allowed protests allowed to protest, but you know, as soon as you step on the streets, what happens says like if i knew in protest and it's my rights, 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 i can even protest because i'm going to be gusto shots. so why are we having the selection? who is it before? we really want to see these new blood nor to what the, the new blood bringing on the table. what are the people going to gain from this new blood melody? it my point of view. it's the last straw like we are at the end. it's just if something doesn't change, it's just gonna kill just fine. i mean, i'm doing it hoping and we have seen it these hoping that they will do something. but up, up, up, we go back to others, but it will not do it for the next 5 years to partner to them. they come financing with you. so i guess that's where we're going to wrap this discussion melody and joseph joseph, she ran just alma, thank you for your time. yes, we're going to vote. but as a form of punishment, something you have never had 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 presentation of women in politics . you, terry says 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 doublets yields, that is what really motivated me to go for this position on the campaign trail. schmidt's room and 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, 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 guarantee representation for women have failed, or buck fired. so then vitale says, this has to change. we had 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 the weekend. 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 financing by to we 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 baterri 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 active health to ensure that women have access to essentially talis, 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,

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