Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has pledged to support a needy girl from Thika, Kiambu County, who sells boiled maize by the roadside after school.

The lawmaker shared on his X handle a video where the girl — from Kisiwa Primary School — was captured selling maize in full school uniform at night.

According to the lawmaker, the girl reminds him of his own situation back in primary and secondary school, where he had to sell illicit brew (chang’aa) everyday after school.

“These challenges are temporary for we serve a living God who is a God of turn around. If He turned a Red Sea to dry land for Israelites to pass, He will turn around your challenges into solutions. If He turned around barren wombs into Babies, He will turn around your sorrows into joy,” Babu wrote. “If He turned around skins full of leprosy into smooth skins, He will turn around your addiction into freedom, He will turn around Your sickness into good Health, Your mess to a message, your test to testimony, Your lack to abundance.”

Babu now wants anyone who knows the girl to help him get in touch with her.

“I want to sponsor her Education and give her Parents money to start business.”