Cool runnings: will Kenya’s ganja-nomics candidate be a kingmaker or sideshow?
As the two presidential heavyweights slug it out George Wajackoyah is advocating for bhang to be legalised and farmed
07 August 2022 - 18:33
There is no need to be high on weed to think George Wajackoyah might have a point in the way he is conducting a low-budget campaign to become Kenya’s fifth president. The man proposing “ganja-nomics” as the solution to Kenya’s economic ills marked his final campaign push on Saturday by driving through Nairobi streets in a Toyota SUV, waving from the sunroof as passers-by formed small crowds to cheer him and take selfies...
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