Raila Pledges to Reopen Kenya-Somalia Border If Elected President
Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya coalition party presidential candidate Raila Odinga has promised to reopen the Kenya-Somalia border if clinches the presidency after the August 9th elections.
Odinga, who is giving his fifth stab at the presidency, said the reopening of the border will allow free flow of goods and people, thus enhancing trade between the two countries.
“We shall put in place all that is required to ensure operations at this border resume so that we can freely interact with our Somalia brothers,” Odinga said during a series of campaign rallies in Mandera County.
Odinga said his administration will improve security in the North-Eastern region which has continued to suffer attacks from the Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militants.
The Azimio government, Odinga added, will focus on infrastructure improvement in the region to open it up, including completing the Horn of Africa getaway project that cuts through Isiolo and Wajir, ending up in Mandera.
“We shall ensure the infrastructure project is completed within next year so that from Mandera you can get to Niarobi with ease,” he said.
He further pledged to address the perennial water problem in the Northern Kenya region by drilling boreholes and setting up pans to harvest rainwater.
“We shall ensure we have sufficient clean water from the river passing through Mandera into Somalia. We want to deal with water shortage in Mandera once and for all by drilling boreholes and have water pans to help harvest rainwater for both human and livestock use,” said Raila.
“We shall also build a slaughterhouse here in Mandera so that we can process meat locally for export and the animal skin will be used in shoe-making.”
At the same time, Odinga said his administration will introduce livestock insurance to compensate pastoralists who lose their stock to drought.
“We shall introduce livestock insurance so that when a family loses their animals due to drought, they can be compensated by the government,” he said.
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Wow, is he serious?Mr…
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Wow, is he serious?Mr. Promise, where are you going to get funds to successfully build,run,and maintain these project if ever they get out of the drawing board ? Tell,or promise us...Farther also tell us why past regimes of which you were part were not successful.Are the new ideas? Obviously not.
OMG oh no! This can't happen…
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OMG oh no! This can't happen. New Joe Biden in Kenya.
You are not winning either…
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You are not winning either way:
IEBC Register:
• Mount Kenya - 5.81M
• Rift Valley: 5.34M
• Nyanza – 3, 081, 981
• Ukambani – 1. 6 M
• Nairobi – 2, 505, 199
• Western – 2,296, 696
• Coast – 1, 953, 528
• North Eastern – 866, 006
This man needs to retire. Why would you waste your retirement for presidency which is full of stress?
Go home!
We can't have somalis around. They think they are better than everyone and they al shabab supporters. Go away.
For reference
https://thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30
Muslims can't co exist with other groups. Kenya will turn into zoomalia like mandera. Moi chased these people which was a blessing in disguise. Ruto said he will close the refugee camps which are breeding grounds for al shabab. The better. Not all are bad people but they come with radicals if we don't have them already.
Go away with your bogus promises like giving youths 6k.
Ruto may not be the best but he is better. Raila of today is not the raila of 2007 or 2010. Retire
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This now sounds like a man…
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This now sounds like a man possessed. Al shabab must be celebrating,and saying God is Great, after hearing RAO's proclamation.
The border as I understand , it was closed due to insecurity,and not for lack of trade between the two neighbors.
This now sounds like a man…
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This now sounds like a man possessed. Al shabab must be celebrating,and saying God is Great, after hearing RAO's proclamation.
The border as I understand , it was closed due to insecurity,and not for lack of trade between the two neighbors.
That border remains closed…
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That border remains closed for a reason.There already is a lot of instability in the north eastern region just the other day they hijacked a bus and lectured the travelers for two hours while looking for “non locals”Kenyan Somalis are free to visit their kin in Somalia but we do not need to give Alshabab and the other elements a free pass.Not sure to whose benefit visa on arrival introduced by Uhuru really helped just let in more Nigerian thugs we already have enough of these people in Eastleigh
Al Shabaab killer gang “CIC”…
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Al Shabaab killer gang “CIC”,Raila promised them of easy access to Kenya by opening the border.These gangsters will kill all non Muslims along the route to Nairobi as their sponsor,Raila will withdraw all security forces all the way to Moyale,Mandela and Liboi border towns.
Lord have mercy, why why why…
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Lord have mercy, why why why Sir would u think of doing such a thing. What the Hell do we get from Somali apart from sheet covered grown men who want us dead. Have u been asleep n missed all the bomb blasts in Kenya. Somali needs to fix its many problems before a border can be opened.
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