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Issa Abdallah Timamy occupation
Lawyer, Politician
About Issa Abdallah TimamyÂ
Issa Abdallah Issa Timamy is the Governor of Lamu County since 2013.
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Mr Timamy is a lawyer by training, and prior to his election, he served as the chairman of the National Museums of Kenya. He was elected as candidate for the United Democratic Forum (UDF).
He went to the University of Nairobi as a law student.
He went to Lamu and Sacred Heart primary schools before joining Allidina Visram High School in Mombasa.
Timamy worked for many years as company secretary and director at Sameer Group of Companies in Nairobi. In 2005, he was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the National Museums of Kenya, from where he resigned in 2012 to venture into elective politics.
He still runs his law firm Timamy and Company Advocates in Mombasa and specializes in commercial law.
A father of five, Timamy is married to Dr Hajara El-Busaidy, daughter of prominent scholar Prof Abdulgafur El-Busaidy.
In Kenya’s 2013 general election, Timamy vied in the gubernatorial elections, winning as Governor of Lamu County, alongside Deputy Governor Erick Kinyua Mugo. He was elected on a UDF party ticket.
Governor Issa Timamy unveiled a Hindi Orphanage Center built at cost of Sh17 million. The Governor thanked Al Furqan Charitable Society in Turkey for the Center. The Center will admit more than 200 orphans and other children from destitute families within the county.
Al-Kheir foundation, an invited friend and partner of the Governor, is a humanitarian organization based in the UK. The foundation is building two-bedroom houses for villagers in Bahamisi village, Pate Island in Lamu County. Al-Khair Foundation Africa will start the Sh30 million project in Bahamisi village and extend it to more villages.
The residents live in poor conditions with no water, health services, education or food. They have no beds and their houses are leaking. The Founder and president of the foundation, Imam Qasim Ahmad, said they will build 28 modern houses and furnish them.
Ahmad said they will also set up a mosque, a health centre, and an early childhood education centre. The project was launched in the presence of the Governor.
The Governor has also branded Lamu as an Island of festivals, as a move to revive the tourism industry and since then, there has been an increase of visitors through airport arrivals.
A research that was done by the Department of Humanity, University of Nairobi on accountability and transparency in devolved units, ranked the Governor among the top five Governors in the Country that are likely to be re-elected.
Issa Abdallah Timamy biography
Birt name:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Issa Abdallah Timamy
Age:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 12 September 1959
Hometown:Â Â Â Â Â Mkomani, Lamu, kenya
Relationship:Â Â Â Married
Issa Abdallah Timamy family
Wife:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Dr Haraja El-Busaidy
Issa Abdallah Timamy education
Lamu and Sacred Heart Primary School, Lamu
Allidina Visram High School, Mombasa
University of Nairobi (Bachelor of Law (1983)
Kenya School of Law (1984)
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