Presidential Contender George Wajackoyah Tours Marijuana Farms in the US

Roots Party presidential candidate George Wajackoyah has visited some marijuana farms during his ongoing tour of the United States.

His spokesperson Wilson Muirani, alias Jaymo Ule Msee, shared photos of Wajackoyah touring cannabis plantations and restaurants while interacting with potential marijuana investors.

Wajackoyah, who has pledged to legalize marijuana if elected president in the August 9th general elections, is seen looking at some of the various marijuana strains grown for medicinal and recreational purposes in the US.

"Today the fifth visited cannabis plantations and restaurants in the US where he has been invited by Cannabis investors in the US," Jaymo said in a statement.

Wajackoyah, 62, claims the revenue generated from cultivating and exporting marijuana has the potential to clear Kenya's escalating public debt which currently stands at over Sh8 trillion.

"If we can grow Bangi in Nyeri alone, each Kenyan could get a dividend cheque of Sh200,000 every year from the sale of Bangi. If we grew Bangi in Nyeri alone, we would build 2 expressways in each county in Kenya," Wajackoya said during the launch of his manifesto last month.

"If we grew bangi in Nyeri alone, Kenya will have 10 percent of IMF's total cash reserves. In short we will never have to borrow a single coin in future."

He also said that under his presidency, Kenya will venture into the lucrative anti-venom market by farming poisonous snakes and extracting toxins from them that will enable the country to locally manufacture antidotes for export.

"If we did snake farming in Kenya, each venomous snake farmer will earn an average of $6,000 or Sh600,000 per vial of anti-venom. For example, a cobra farmer will make $6,300 from a vial of cobra anti-venom. If we harvest Black mamba anti-venom a Kenyan farmer will make $5,300 per vial," he added.