THE YEAR 2013 AND BEYOND-LETS THINK BEYOND MARCH 4TH

This morning, I was watching an interesting interview on NTV; the guests were Mr. Mugo Kibati Director Vision 2030 and Amani Kenya and Dr. Vimal Shah, CEO BIDCO and Chairman Mkenya Daima. I must say that the discussion was very insightful. Of particular note is the appeal by both that every Kenyan must begin taking their role especially on ensuring peaceful elections and electing quality leadership seriously. If all of us took these two seriously, we will solve a number of the social ills that bedevil this nation. We will hold peaceful, credible and violence free elections and at the end of it put into leadership visionary and pragmatic leaders who will in turn transform our society to realize Vision 2030.

As I come back from a deserved holiday period with family, a time incidentally when I met Otieno Ombok of Mkenya Daima doing great work on peace building at the Coast through training journalists on responsible reporting where we discussed engagements into the future, I must say we all have a role to play in ensuring peaceful elections and electing leaders that take Kenya forward.

I must commend The Clean Kenya Campaign –TCKC team who held forte while I was away. I must take note of the recognition from Lets Do it Foundation below, TCKC is honored to receive this international recognition for the work we have continued to do to ensure our country achieves cleaner and safer environments to live in.  In partnership with IEBC, Africa Youth Trust, A Better World/SOFDI, Akiba Uhaki Foundation various government institutions and other partners, we stepped in when voter registration was sluggish.

We are now rolling out, again in partnership with the above and in line with our two other pillars; good governance and peace building, a voter education and peaceful elections campaign. We trust that we can hold elections peacefully and be happy at the results of those elections if we conduct ourselves peacefully and elect credible leaders who have a developmental agenda for Kenya.

As I wish all a Prosperous New Year, I want to appreciate all those who made our programs a success in 2012. All friends of TCKC, partners, sponsors, government agencies and our networks, all our volunteers, interns and the TCKC team, we made an impact that we must all be proud of as indicated in the Lets Do It Foundation recognition.

As we step into 2013, going by the serious engagements that TCKC has already rolled out, we will have an even more invigorating, engaging but above all value adding activities towards making our physical, social, economic and political environments cleaner, safer and better to live in. Our training to waste handlers on waste management resumed today.

We look forward to working with all such groups that have a positive outlook for Kenya, are doing something worthwhile to achieve this and believe that these things are possible if we put our minds together to solve them.

Meanwhile, watch what these folks at the grassroots are saying, they will vote on issues and are looking forward to vote responsibly.

Best,

Otieno Sungu.

TCKC.