Narok Governor Samuel Ole Tunai who is also the Chairman of Tourism and wildlife commitee in the Council of governors receiving a strategic tourism masterplan from CS Tourism Najib Balala that will help profile, brand and position tourism products and tourist destinations across the 47 counties.
Kudos My able Governor.
Bomet Governor Joyce Laboso has urged President Uhuru Kenyatta to appoint her predecessor Isaac Ruto to the Cabinet.
Dr Laboso drummed up support for Mr Ruto, saying “he is young, vibrant and a capable worker.”
She was speaking on Sunday in Mr Ruto’s constituency, Chepalungu, where she joined congregants at African Gospel Church, Siongiroi Sinai.
“Find something at least for him. We are not selfish people, we are not sadists to wish that anyone perishes. We want as many of Bomet people to get an opportunity wherever they can,” said the governor.
She was accompanied by Chief Executive Officer for Education Juliana Yegon and area MCA Leonard Kirui.
Governor Samuel ole Tunai was among the dignitaries who graced the ordination of new Full Golpel Church Bishop Rev Peter Nakola yesterday. The colourful and well attended event took place at Ololulunga Full Gospel Church.
Governor congratulated the new Bishop and asked the Church to continue praying for the county.
County boss was pleased to join Rev. Peter Nakola on his ordination as Bishop, at a church service presided over by Full Gospel Church Overseer Bishop Dr. Samuel Kathitta.
Governor addressed the congregation and asked all to seek the face of God, and build harmony county to county, and stand united as a country.
Governor took occasion to commend H. E President Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto for considering Maasai professionals and including them in the Jubilee Administration.
Governor Tunai was joined by a slate of County leaders including the area MP Hon. Korei Lemein, Narok County Senator Hon. Ledama Ole Kina, Narok East MP Hon. Ken Aramat, Narok North MP Hon. Moitalel Kenta, Narok West MP Hon. Gabriel Tongoyo, former Senator Stephen Ole Ntutu, County Assembly Speaker Hon. Nkoidila Lankas and the Chief Administrative Secretary nominee Hon. Patrick Ntutu among others.
By KURGAT MARINDANY
A 'little' quarrel between two people at Isinya town, Kajiado on Saturday blew up into a fully-fledged battle leaving several people injured and property destroyed.
Trouble started after a local disagreed with the owner of an agrovet shop over the price of an item.
Peter Leken, who was nearby, said the shop owner, whom he only named as Hillary, slashed the customer on the head with a machete. When the customer called for help from passersby, Hillary is said to have dashed off and ran towards Insinya police station.
He was rescued by police officers on patrol who took him to the police station. After some thirty minutes, more than 100 Maasai morans descended into the town and demanded to be handed over the suspect so they could discipline him. The police blocked them from accessing the station. The morans later went to the suspect's shop and set his truck which was full of hay on fire. They also burned down the shop into ashes as others burned hay stocks placed on the roadside along the Isinya/Kiserian route.
The irate morans engaged police in a fight in their quest to have the suspect released to them for lynching. Others went to the town’s slaughter house to smoke out the trader's community members accusing them of disrespecting the natives. Police officers led by Isinya OCPD Stephen Weda contained the situation. Kajiado acting county commissioner David Kipkemei urged the residents to desist from violence and handle their differences using the right channels.
Area MCA Joshua Olowuasa said: "That was a difference between two individuals who should carry their own cross." "The person who was injured should have reported the matter to the police so the suspect can be charged in a court of law."
By KEVIN J. KELLEY
The United States signalled a sharp shift in its South Sudan policy on Wednesday as Washington's United Nations envoy denounced the country's president as “an unfit partner.”
UN Ambassador Nikki Haley also abandoned the gentle cajolery previously employed by the US in its appeals to neighbouring states to facilitate an end to South Sudan's civil war.
“It is past time for the leaders of Uganda and Kenya to get involved and put pressure on President Kiir,” Ambassador Haley declared in a stinging speech to the UN Security Council.
“They are key players in the success of a true peace process.” Decrying frequent violations of a December 21 ceasefire agreement, the Trump administration's UN representative warned, “It’s not just a lack of forward momentum; things are going backwards in South Sudan.”
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Ambassador Haley's comments serve to distance the US from the government of a country whose birth in 2011 had been midwifed by Washington. Successive US administrations — Republican and Democratic alike — had aided South Sudan's fight for independence and had financed its attempts at political and economic development.
Ambassador Haley noted in her speech that the US has “invested well over $11 billion in South Sudan and the government of President Kiir.”
“We have treated the Kiir government as a partner in this effort, and we have assumed that the best interests of the people were its priority,” the US envoy recounted. But through its recent actions, “the government of South Sudan is increasingly proving itself to be an unfit partner for this Council and any country seeking peace and security for the people of South Sudan,”
Ambassador Haley declared.
She cited continued moves by the government to block deliveries of humanitarian aid. These include imposing fees of up to $7.6 million on aid groups, Ambassador Haley said, suggesting that this money should be used to shelter two million internally displaced persons or to feed some of the six million South Sudanese facing famine.
“Our attempts to ease the suffering of the people of South Sudan aren’t working,” she continued.
“And what’s worse, we’re failing; not despite the leadership of South Sudan, but because of it.
The time has come to acknowledge the hard reality that the leaders of South Sudan are not just failing their people, they are betraying them.” The envoy reiterated the Obama administration's calls for an arms embargo on all sides in South Sudan's conflict.
But while the United Kingdom voiced support for that action on Wednesday, two of the Security Council's other veto-wielding members —China and Russia — did not endorse an arms embargo. France, the fifth veto power, has supported an arms embargo in the past. Despite her explicit condemnation of the South Sudan government, Ambassador Haley vowed on Wednesday that “the United States will never give up on this effort” to make peace.
UN diplomats were left to wonder what new actions the Trump administration might take as it revises US policy on South Sudan.
Earlier in the week, India High Commissioner Ms. Suchitra Durai met Governor of Narok County H.E. Mr. Samuel K. Tunai accompanied by Mr. Mahesh Punia, Adviser to the Governor on #Investments and discussed issues of bilateral interests between the county government of narok and Kenya at large with the Government of India.
Among other things the two leaders talked of a possible healthcare partnership and factories to boast employment and productivity through value addition in both farming and agricultural sector.
