Kamukunji and Kasarani Constituency

When you talk of Kamukunji, you talk of Kenya's second liberation. The constituents did suffer as much as most of politicians since their back yards were the battlefields with the Kanu Government. The constituents are claiming that for many years, politicians come from "outside" other constituency's and claim Kamukunji. This will be a year that the voters majority of them the youths who have continuously suffered through unemployment and inability to access help from their MP's take the stand. The battle in Kamukunji at this time is more of Who is who rather than what party they are in.

They can attest to this that "outsiders" don't care based on the performance of current MP, Mr Nyagah. Little has been done in this constituency in terms of development even though the constituency is in Nairobi Province, the roads, sanitary conditions and education has taken a back lash. Also, the current MP has not utilized the CDF money thus making it the only constituency that has the most money sitting in the bank.

Party wise, whoever makes it through Nominations on Kibaki's party will have a better chance than the ODM-K counterpart. Based on the last two general elections, voters elected Kibaki for president and Democratic Party member of parliament. All we know for sure is that the current MP has no chance of making it in this constituency and should not even dare try to run. Him being one of Kibaki's close friends, we expect him to be nominated to parliament anyway.

Kasarani Constituency

This is another constituency in the heart of the city that the MP has done nothing worth talking about in the last 5 years. His perfomance record in this constituency is pathetic. He seems like he made it to parliament and forgot about where he came from. His contributions to national development is almost minute if there is anything to talk about. Even though Mr. William Omondi has been hanging out with Raila of late, his appearance with ODM Mighty has little or no effect on Kasarani people.

With this in mind, Kasarani will be a hot bed and its too early to call the party that will take the day here. Both front runner parties ODM-K and Narc-K seems to have multitude of support here. All elections in Kasarani have been tightly contested with winners leading with a small margin. Same is expected. It all now depends where most voters are registered, this will help when it comes to winning civic seats but for parliament its hard to call. Areas like Mathare, Baba Dogo are in most case here ODM-K strong hold while Kasarani, Mwiki, and Kahawa are more to the Narc-K.

All I can say regarding Kasarani is that the current MP William Omondi has no chance of making it back to parliament. Current people on the lead are the ones who are championing for youth leadership. Expect all rounded changes from Kasarani with new youthful MP and lots of new faces in Nairobi City Council.