Nyamira rising. Together we deliver.

Tea and bananas are the backbone of this county. Yet the farmer who does the hardest work in the chain keeps the smallest share of the price — waiting on bonuses, absorbing transport losses, and selling perishable fruit to whoever shows up with a lorry.

• Use the Senate's legislative role on agriculture and cooperatives to press for transparent bonus computation and on-time payment, with penalties when farmers are kept waiting.
• Champion county-level value addition — sorting, grading, cold storage and processing near the farm, not three counties away — so the margin stays in Nyamira.
• Push for cooperative governance reform so societies are audited and farmer-controlled, not captured.
• Open export and aggregation links for avocado and banana through the diaspora and trade missions.

An annual published farmer price report for tea, banana and avocado in Nyamira, tracked year over year, so we can all see whether the number is moving.

Our best young people are our biggest export. They finish school, they look around the county, and they board a matatu to Nairobi or a plane to the Gulf — not because they want to leave, but because there is nothing here to stay for.

• Enforce, through oversight, the reserved share of county procurement for youth, women and persons with disabilities — reserved on paper is worthless if it isn't paid in practice.
• Push for a functional TVET and digital-skills pipeline in Nyamira, with connectivity in every ward centre, so online work is a real option here.
• Support boda boda riders with fair regulation, insurance access and safety, instead of treating them as a nuisance to be taxed.
• Open agribusiness and processing pathways so a young person can build a business on the farm their parents already own.

An annual published figure: the value of county contracts actually paid to Nyamira youth-, women- and PWD-owned businesses.

Families travel to a referral facility, queue for hours, and are handed a prescription to buy outside. A hospital without medicine is a building, not a health service.

• Make county health commodity spending a standing oversight item — every quarter, what was budgeted for drugs against what actually reached the shelf.
• Push in the Senate for health financing rules that protect county facilities and for reimbursements that arrive on time.
• Fight for staffing and equipment allocations for Nyamira's referral and sub-county facilities, and for functional maternity and dialysis services close to home.
• Support a public, ward-level dashboard of stock-outs so shortages are visible before they become emergencies.

A quarterly published stock-out count per facility. If it isn't falling, I haven't done my job.

We are a green, well-watered county where households still walk for water. We are a hilly county where a road built in the dry season is a river by April. That is a planning and accountability failure, not a rainfall problem.

• Oversight of every water and road allocation coming into Nyamira — cost per kilometre, contractor, completion date, published.
• Press nationally for a highland roads standard: proper drainage and gravel specification, because a road without drainage in Nyamira is money thrown down a hill.
• Champion gravity-fed and spring-protection water schemes that are cheap to run and hard to steal.
• Name stalled projects publicly — every incomplete market, dispensary and water point, with the date it was promised.

A public stalled-projects register for Nyamira, updated twice a year, with a shrinking list as the test.

Nyamira is small in land and large in people — 605,576 of us in about 912 square kilometres. Our hills make every kilometre of road and every water line more expensive to build. A revenue formula that rewards raw land area quietly punishes counties like ours, and nothing in this plan gets built without the money to build it.

• Fight, in every Division of Revenue and County Allocation of Revenue debate, for weightings that reflect population density, terrain cost and agricultural dependence.
• Build a bloc with fellow highland and high-density counties — one senator arguing alone loses; six arguing together win.
• Push for a national agriculture value-addition allocation that tea, banana and avocado counties can actually draw on.
• Make sure Nyamira is on the list every time a national programme is shared out — and say so loudly in the chamber when we are not.

Nyamira's equitable share figure published side by side with the previous year, every allocation cycle, with my vote and my speech attached — win or lose.

Money arrives, headlines run for a week, and then the file goes quiet. A large share of county budgets is eaten by recurrent costs before a single project is funded — and residents are told there is no money for the clinic.

• Table every Auditor-General report touching Nyamira before the Senate's county accounts committee — no query dropped, no matter who it embarrasses, including my own allies.
• Hold the national executive to account for county money: when the National Treasury delays or shorts Nyamira's disbursements, raise it on the floor, summon the officials responsible, and demand the release — on the record.
• Publish a quarterly Where Your Money Went report: what Nyamira received, what was spent, what was queried — plain English, online and printed for every ward.
• Hold an open public accounts baraza in each of the four constituencies every year, where officials answer residents directly.
• Publish a stalled-projects register: every incomplete market, dispensary and water point, with the date it was promised.

Four reports a year on this website. Four barazas a year on the ground. A stalled-projects list that gets shorter. Miss any of it, and you have every right to say so publicly.

Women run the farms, the chamas, the households and half the businesses in this county — and are the last in line for credit, land documents and county contracts.

• Champion legislation and oversight that gets affordable credit to chamas and women's cooperatives without predatory terms.
• Push for market infrastructure that women traders actually asked for — sheds, sanitation, security, storage.
• Support land documentation and succession processes that stop widows and daughters being written out.
• Insist on gender-disaggregated reporting of every county programme, because what isn't counted isn't delivered.

Gender-disaggregated county spending published each year, and a named list of market facilities completed.

You see your leaders at funerals, at fundraisers and at election time. In between, the phone rings out. That is the real reason people stop believing.

• Visit all 20 wards every year — announced in advance, open to anyone, no invitation required.
• Run a permanent constituency desk with a published phone number and a rule that every message gets a human answer within 72 hours.
• Publish my Senate attendance and voting record on this website, whether or not it flatters me.
• Publish an annual account of campaign contributions received and how they were spent.

An annual scorecard on this site: wards visited, barazas held, attendance, votes, and money in and out. Judge me on the document, not on the speech.

Thousands of Nyamira's daughters and sons live and work abroad — in the US, the UK, Canada, Europe and the Gulf. They send money home every single month, they school siblings and bury parents from a distance, and yet they have no seat at the table, no honest channel to invest back home without being cheated, and too often no practical way to even cast a vote.

• Champion diaspora voting access — press IEBC and the national government to expand registration and polling for Kenyans abroad, so Nyamira's people overseas can actually vote in 2027 and beyond.
• Open a permanent county diaspora desk — a named contact, published abroad, that answers investment, land, probate and remittance questions honestly and follows up.
• Build safe channels for diaspora investment in county value addition — tea, banana and avocado processing — so money sent home builds an asset that pays, not just another bill covered.
• Use diaspora networks to open export and market links for Nyamira produce, and push nationally for cheaper, better-protected remittance corridors.
• Protect diaspora families at home — fair land documentation and succession, so property is not quietly stolen while its owners are away earning the shillings that hold this county up.

An annual diaspora report on this site: registration and voting access secured, investment links opened, and remittance and market wins delivered for Nyamira's people abroad.