Roots Party presidential candidate, George Luchiri Wajackoyah, on Tuesday, June 21, revealed that he was once disqualified from an election in London, United Kingdom (UK) over a missing wife.
Speaking during an interview with Spice FM, Wajackoyah revealed that he had declared interest in the Tottenham parliamentary seat but was locked out over failure to disclose the name of the mother of his two children.
He added that despite giving the electoral body a valid reason as to why he left the 'wife's name' section blank, he was denied clearance to contest for the seat.
"I have stood for elections in the UK and I was told that I was not ripe enough to become MP for Tottenham because I had indicated that I had two children yet I left the wife section blank.
"They asked me how I got my kids without a wife, and I explained that I had not officially married their mother. However, they insisted they would not allow me to stand for election," he explained.
Wajackoyah noted that the experience did not make him despair but was the hallmark of his high ethical standards, which he opined most local leaders including those in church lacked.
"That is why I have solidarity with ethics and morality. Leaders in Kenya have solidarity with immorality, so do some of the church leaders."
The Roots Party flagbearer argued that he was the best fit to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta since he had experience working with various African Heads of States. He further took a jibe at Azimio's Raila Odinga for using the second liberation to gain political mileage.
"It is an unfortunate situation that I worked with some of these people like Raila when I was in exile. We had hope in them and financed them, then when they came in, what did they do other than have the sympathy of being arrested?
"I was also jailed, I may not have been in an actual jail but I spent time at City Mortuary when Robert Ouko died and that is why I have problems with breathing. We were also fighting for this country," he remarked.
In addition, he faulted the current leadership for making Kenya a slave to foreign countries which brought in high standards of capitalism, which he opined was detrimental to the country.
"If you look at China, we are becoming overdependent on the country and it is the same leaders who cause this. A few men get into the plane and travel there and come back with infrastructure projects which are unkempt.
"Look at Thika Road, look at the Eastern Bypass and the entry points to the freeways, these are death traps yet we have civil engineering graduates. The failure is the leadership," he added.
