By DICKSON ODHIAMBO.
CHURCH LEADERS,
BUSINESS PEOPLE APPEALS TO RESIDENTS OF NYANZA TO WELCOME PRESIDENT UHURU
KENYATTA.
MEMBERS of the Clergy in Nyanza
Region have appealed to the residents within the region to warmly welcome
President Uhuru Kenyatta during his official visit scheduled next week.
The Clergy under the Banner of
Nyanza Council of Church Leaders said Residents of various Counties where
President Kenyatta is set to visit should be ready to receive the Head of State
and his entourage when visit them next week.
Speaking on behalf of the Nyanza
church leaders at his office in Kisumu, the Council’s Chairman Bishop Dr. Washington
Ogonyo Ngede said the Head of State will be visiting the Nyanza region purely
on Development matters where he will be commissioning various development
projects within the various counties he will be visiting.
The Chairman praised the residents
of Nyanza region as peace loving people and further appealed to them to
maintain peace and tranquility during and after the Head of State’s official visit in the region.
“The
President as the Head of State and Government has a right to visit any part of
the country anytime he feels like and whenever he does such visits, the
residents should welcome him warmly.
Same sentiments were also echoed
by the Vice Chair of the Kenya National Chambers of Commerce and Industry in
Kisumu County Getrude Owiny who said the residents should give a warm welcome
to President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Owiny said the Business Community
in Kisumu welcomes the Head of State’s
next week visit in Kisumu County.
She urged President Uhuru’s Jubilee Government to help in
the revival of the collapsed industries like Kisumu Cotton Mill{KICOMI} Miwani
Sugar Factory among others so as to help in the creation of employment.
President Uhuru Kenyatta was set
to visit three Counties in Nyanza namely Kisumu, Siaya and Homa Bay with an aim
of commissioning development projects this week but the visit has been pushed to
next week on Thursday. The Head of State was also expected to chair a cabinet
meeting at Kisumu State Lodge this Thursday.
However, a section of leaders in
Kisumu County have said they were given short notice hence needed more time to
consult on which areas of the County should the Head of State visit during his
tour of the region.
The President last Month visited
Migori County where a section of the Youth who were attending his rally at
Migori Primary school heckled the area Governor Okoth Obado in the presence of
the President forcing the Head of State to cut short his speech.
The Migori County Governor Okoth
Obado later ferried a delegation of over 300 people to apologize to President
Uhuru in Nairobi where they indeed apologized to the Head of State who later
pardoned those Youth who were earlier arrested in connection to the heckling.
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