Legislator and veteran journalist Mohammed Adow was elected MP Wajir South in August 2022 after garnering 13,990 votes.
Before joining politics, Adow served as a Senior Correspondent with Aljazeera based in Doha.
The lawmaker has more than 20 years of experience reporting from across Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
He covered wars against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al-Qaeda, and the uprisings in Yemen and Syria.
On November 14, 2013, Adow produced a documentary on Al Jazeera English highlighting the history of discrimination against ethnic Somalis in Northern Kenya since independence.
Before joining Aljazeera English in 2006, the renowned journalist worked with the BBC for 10 years as a correspondent in Nairobi and Ethiopia.
Adow declined to join politics in 2013 and 2017, despite being under immense pressure from locals. He argued that he was focused on his media career, which was on an upward trajectory.
He, however, listened to the area residents and elders and ventured into politics five years later in 2022.
His agenda was based on sacrificing to improve the lives of the expansive constituency.
Adow decried the level of corruption and embezzlement of public funds in his county, Wajir, terming the vice as a form of self-marginalization.
He also argued that devolved funds can improve constituents' lives and revamp critical services such as water and health if utilized well.
"Initially there was some form of comfort in blaming the national government for under development, but that is no longer the case as resources are devolved at grassroots, unfortunately, with nothing to show," he stated.
Adow champions re-opening the Somalia-Kenya border to improve the economies of the villages near the border areas.
The lawmaker holds a master’s degree in Media, Communications and Public Relations from the University of Leicester.
He also pursued a master’s degree in public leadership from Havard Kennedy School.
