Raphael Tuju has indicated he is going for the Rarieda MP seat in 2027.
The former Cabinet Secretary has retreated to his home county of Siaya and is currently mobilizing grassroots support for the upcoming campaigns to be MP.
Speaking at Ndigwa over the weekend after attending the Linda Mwananchi Kisumu rally, Tuju told residents he had lost his businesses in Nairobi and was back seeking support of the Rarieda people to elect him on debt as an MP.
“Before I came I was worried, I was asking myself what was I going to do if they ask me for money and my business was also destroyed?” Tuju.
“Will you people elect me even if I do not give you money? You know nowadays wherever I go people ask for tea, or something,” he added.
The former MP said his way of paying the people of Rarieda would be through service and development, and jobs, the way he did when he was the area MP.
Tuju further told Rarieda residents how while as an MP, it was his constituency that pioneered the bodaboda business before it spread countrywide.
“The only way I can help you is creating jobs for the youth. I was the first to bring motorbikes in Rarieda, the whole country, bodaboda business started here in Rarieda,” he said.
Tuju was elected as a MP for Rarieda constituency in the December 2002 election on NARC ticket. He served until 2007 when he was sent home after falling out with Raila Odinga.
He later served as the Jubilee Party Secretary General and a Cabinet Secretary without portfolio under President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration.
The Rarieda seat is currently held by ODM party Vice Chairperson Otiende Amollo.
