Fatuma Abdi Jehow

Fatuma Abdi Jehow is a Kenyan politician from Wajir county. A member of the National Assembly of Kenya. The current Women Representative for Wajir county. She won the seat through the Orange Democratic Movement in the 2022 Kenya General Elections. It has been six months since Jehow gained the Women representative seat. Jehow won the seat by 36,064 votes against eleven candidates competing for the same seat. Among those she defeated was the then incumbent women representative for Wajir County, Fatuma Gedi, who managed to get 22,956 votes.

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• Our people have experienced an alarming drought phase owing to failure of six consecutive rainy seasons. This is a major indicator of our current plight, which we should partially take blame for lack of preparedness and strengthening of existing policies especially in water, livestock and agriculture.
  • https://www.the-star.co.ke/counties/north-eastern/2023-03-27-conserve-rainwater-to-mitigate-future-droughts-wajir-mp-urges/ (The Star, March 27, 2023)