Wajackoyah: Why I was Blocked from Vying for Tottenham MP Seat in the UK

Roots Party presidential candidate Prof. George Wajackoyah says he unsuccessfully attempted to run for a parliamentary seat in the UK where he lived as a refugee.

Speaking in an interview with a local FM station on Wednesday, Wajackoyah divulged that he was disqualified from the Tottenham parliamentary race because he did not have a wife.

“I have stood for elections in the UK. I was told ‘you are not ripe enough to be Tottenham MP because we have checked in your records and we have established that you have children with no wife. Tell us how you got these children yet you don’t have a wife,” Wajackoyah recalled.

The 2022 presidential contender says that he was informed that he would not be allowed to vie for the seat because it is against the ethics of the people of the UK.

"I told them that I got the kids before getting married. The officials told me they could not allow me to run due to ethics. That's why I have got solidarity to ethics," Wajackoyah noted.

In an interview earlier this month, Wajackoyah said his family is in the process of acquiring Kenyan citizenship and join him in the country soon. He revealed that his wife, an American, lives in the United States while their kids reside in the UK.

“I have children and an American wife. She lives in the United States and our grown-up kids live in the United Kingdom,” he said during a recent interview on Citizen TV.

If elected president, Wajackoyah has promised to introduce radical reforms including the legalization of marijuana to support its processing for medical use, and the upscaling of snake farming to produce antivenin.

He argues that marijuana and snake farming can generate sufficient revenues to help offset the national debt which currently stands at Sh8.4 trillion.