08/06/2022
THE G***A PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE
Professor George Wajackoyah will be trying his first time luck for the high office in Kenya come August after being cleared on Saturday for the big contest.However his manifesto seems to leave many with open mouths.
The lawyer and lecturer pledged to create eight prime minister positions in his government, personally serve as the Immigration minister, suspend the constitution for six months, change the working days to Monday through Thursday, legalise bhang and sell it to clear Kenya's loans.
His eight-point manifesto caught the attention of Kenyans, with the Standard Digital tweet on the same attracting almost 2,000 retweets and 5,000 likes, 20 hours after it was posted.
The 61-year-old professor was born in Matungu in the western part of Kenya. Unfortunately, his parents divorced and abandoned him at the age of three.
In his own bio and words he had a not so comfortable past as he stated
"George Luchiri Wajackoyah, son of Tito Olilo Jakoya and Melenia Makokha, was born in Mumias. However, he grew up in Indangalasia village, West Wanga (Mumias), the same village his father Tito Olilo Jakoya was born and raised in. His mother, born in Butula, was daughter of Gabriel Ondenga, the village catechist and son of immigrant parents from Samia, the dominant Abakhulo clan. After George’s parents divorced, he became an unwanted child; his mother could not take him with her as it was not customary at that time, and his father was only available for infrequent visits after he moved to Uganda and remarried soon after.
George was left at the mercy of his grandparents, caretakers who put him through very difficult conditions. His grandparents were strict Catholics who did not take no for an answer when it came to prayers. These prayers, they believed, were the only way to prevail over the rampant witchcraft that was prevalent at that time.
At the age of sixteen, George stowed away to Nairobi, almost five hundred miles from the village, in search of greener pastures. He joined small children in the streets and learned the trade of survival. It was very apparent that school was the only solution, but without a helper or guardian, that avenue seemed impossible and life became unbearable.
Things changed when the Hare Krishna rescued him. The Hare Krishna was a blessing at first; they took destitute children from the streets and gave them shelter, with the condition that the new recruits converted into Hare Krishna.
“We would chant, eat, meditate and sleep for a few hours. Sleeping at 11 P.M. and waking up at 3 A.M. became the routine”
The cult was strict to the core but George adjusted quickly and found comfort in new people, he soon became ‘Krishna Balaram”. This experience taught him that nothing comes without a prize. The mistreatment, strict adherence to the chanting doctrine and bickering among devotees soon became the new order. George observed the rules and followed them to the letter. Soon, Mr. Ram Lal Sharma, one of the followers of Hare Krishna and proprietor of City High school, developed an interest for George and offered him a chance to pursue his secondary education at his school. After he accomplished his O’levels, George joined St. Peter Mumia’s Boys High school where he sat for his A’levels. After his academic completion, George joined the police as a recruit constable and climbed the ladder to Inspectorate rank within a short time.
Universities attended include: University of Burundi, Wolverhampton, London (SOAS), Warwick School of law, Westminster, World University Service, Birkbeck, University of Baltimore, American Heritage etc. University adjuncted and lecture talks include American Heritage, Cal-State Fullerton, Cal-State Sacramento, London etc. Talks include Rochester County assembly, Chicago, San Bernadino County, Berlin (Art of living), Switzerland, Mumbai, Canada, Georgia Atlanta, major churches, television interviews, Jewish Synagogues etc"
As we'd seen earlier;Frustrated and in a quest to find his mother, Wajackoyah set out to Busia, with an aim of travelling to Uganda, where he heard she had moved to.
But as fate would have it, they would not reunite. He met many challenges along the way. However, he also met strangers who were willing to give him a helping hand.
"A Somali man in a truck brought me to Nairobi with an intention of taking me to be a herdsboy somewhere in Mandera. Unfortunately, on his way to buy a packet of milk in a shop along Jogoo road, he was run over by a vehicle," the professor told KTN News in a previous interview.
With nowhere to go, Wajackoyah spent years on the streets of Nairobi, roaming around with other boys who were also homeless Chokora before a well-wisher as we've seen until the hare Krishna rescued him.
He was lucky and not so long after, with the Hare Krishna connection the late JJ Kamotho, the Education Cabinet Minister at the time, was informed of his plight and helped pay for his school fees at St Peter's Mumias Boys High School for his A-levels.
"I did my Form 5 and 6 but did not get enough grades to go to the University," he says.
Career
After Wajackoyah completed his studies, Kamotho reached out and convinced him to enrol in the police service where he worked for more than nine years.
During his time at the force, he suspects he stepped on toes when investigating the death of the late Foreign Affairs Minister, Robert Ouko.
Being a spy, he says people thought he run away with a sensitive dossier on Ouko's case murder.
Wajackoyah was arrested, beaten and detained before he was rescued and taken into exile in the United Kingdom (UK). He, however, failed to disclose much on the matter that was in court.
In the UK, he spent time studying. He would dig graves and pay for his fees.
He later moved to the US where he taught Law and Economics, Human Rights, Comparative Constitutional and International law.
Wajackoyah holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Wolverhampton (UK), CCL/LLM, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, LLM University of Warwick (UK), LLM University of Baltimore, and Advanced Diploma in French from the University of Burundi....So it's not all about Omusala this guy has got some substance.
