My Story
Politics is not my background. Service is.
I want you to know who I am, not just what I am asking to become. Here is the honest version, no polish added.
Where I come from
Roots that started in Eastlands
I grew up in Eastlands, in Umoja, in a home that valued discipline and showing up for other people long before it valued titles. Kileleshwa came later. I moved there as an adult and have now lived there for more than twenty years, but the person I am was shaped somewhere else first.
Some of my earliest lessons in leadership came through Scouting: the discipline, the teamwork, and the quiet responsibility of looking out for the people around you. That carried through school, where I served as Deputy Head Boy at Aga Khan High School and later as Chairman of the Christian Union. Both roles taught me the same thing in different ways, that leadership is something you earn by serving, not something you are simply given.
What building things taught me
Judged by outcomes, not promises
My path was never political. From early on I gravitated toward building things, and that pull eventually led me into technology and entrepreneurship, specialising over time in business technology, digital transformation, managed IT services, e-commerce, and e-health. It was not glamorous work in the beginning. It was long nights, hard lessons, and learning to solve problems that had no manual.
Running a technology business means you cannot fake results. Either the product works or it does not. Either the team delivers or it does not. Either the customer's problem gets solved or it does not. That discipline, of being judged by outcomes and not by promises, is the discipline I want to bring to public service.
The businesses I have built were never really about the businesses themselves. They were proof, to myself first, that an idea worked on consistently can become something real. I also learned that you cannot build anything worthwhile alone. Every business I have been part of depended on a team, on mentors, and on people who believed in something before it existed. That is the same spirit I think a community needs.
You fix things by understanding them first, not by shouting about them. That is true in business, and it is true in service.
How service found me
It did not start with a campaign
Long before there was any thought of running for anything, there was Scouting, church, and a habit of saying yes when someone needed help: supporting the education of children from disadvantaged backgrounds, helping put meals on the table for families going through a hard stretch, mentoring young people figuring out their next step, and lending a hand wherever a community initiative or a local organisation needed some technical support.
None of that was building toward a title. It was just how I was raised to treat the people around me. Somewhere along the way, doing that consistently, over years, started to look like a habit worth turning into something bigger.
Beyond the work
What keeps me grounded
Away from work, family is what keeps me grounded, and it is a large part of why I care so much about the everyday quality of life around me: safe streets, clean environments, and a place where the next generation has real opportunity.
I do not think you can separate the person from the public servant. If I would not accept a certain standard for my own family, I have no business accepting it for the people I hope to serve either.
Looking ahead
This does not start or end with an office
I am not doing this because I am chasing a title. I keep seeing problems in this community that are fixable, and I have already been doing something about the ones I can reach on my own. Holding office would simply mean a bigger reach for the same work I am already doing.
I do not have all the answers yet, and I will not pretend to. What I can promise is that I will keep showing up, in or out of office.
What I can promise is that I will keep listening, and keep building a public record you can actually check. That is what the Service Record on this site is for, and it does not stop after any election.