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'Broke' candidate campaigns on foot, says he'll change Magarini if elected

When Amos Katana, 25, the youngest Magarini candidate on an independent ticket received his clearance certificate from an IEBC official. [Marion Kithi, Standard]

Twenty-five-year-old Dr Amos Katana has big dreams. He has no funds to actualise it but hopes that the electorate of Magarini Constituency will buy into his ideas.

Born on the roadside of the dry and dusty village of Kabiboni in Marafa ward within the  poverty-stricken Magarini sub-county, Katana is in the race for the Magarini by-election.

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