Making A Better World

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TCKC visits EcoPost

Friends,

Cleaning Kenya cannot just happen by itself. It must be made to happen.

It is now abundantly clear that our vision for a Clean Kenya is materializing and the dream is beginning to transform into reality.

These past weeks, The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC continued networking and have brought on board strategic partners whose input will add value to the process. In our belief to launch pilot training on waste recycling for waste collectors across Kenya, we met Madam Lorna Korir, Mr Charles Kalama and her team at ECOPOST yesterday the 9th Nov 2012 and the discussions centered on the training process, logistics and management for the same. The details for this training are being fine tuned by both teams.

This is what we call Tasking- EcoPost are just not talking. They are making Poles from Plastic and Flimsy Waste

We also visited one of the processing areas in Kariobangi where waste was being sorted out before being shredded. And I can tell you, we are living badly; waste is swallowing us everywhere.

Please visit our Facebook Pages to see the visual images of what we are talking about. 

Our Executive Director also had crucial meetings with Mr and Mrs Copple. We must say that the enthusiasm and faith in working for a better environments by the Copple couple from the USA is similar to what the Frey couple from Switzerland have shown. Engagements with them and their teams are breathing renewed life into The Clean Kenya Campaign and we will share with our networks the details as we firm and fine tune them. 

Taking a well deserved rest; Ms Lorna Ruto, Oto, Mr. Charles Kalama and Mr. Otieno Sungu at EcoPost

They will be very key to the media strategy to ensure issues of environment and waste management are brought to the fore of our national agenda. We are in firm agreement with this team and their networks that underlying how well me manage and tackle issues of food security, health, job creation, conflicts, and societal social challenges is the environmental link. Our physical and social environments must be clean in order for us to enjoy the joys of quality lives.

This networking has not been for nothing, we are now firmly grounding Kenyans for a Clean Kenya and various groups are emerging and taking firm control of this process within their various capacities. The first on board and off the blocks were the University Students for A Clean Kenya. Now, through Bishop William Abuka and others, the Religious Leaders for A Clean Kenya is taking shape. We are in talks with lawyers to ground Lawyers for A Clean Kenya. In the offing and in discussions too are Teachers for A Clean Kenya, Jua Kali Artisans for A Clean Kenya, Sportsmen for A Clean Kenya, Doctors for A Clean Kenya, Celebrities for A Clean Kenya, Accountants for A Clean Kenya  and even MPs for a Clean Kenya among others. You cannot fail to find where you fit in this!

Our Kenyan problem; Waste at every corner. This is Kariobangi along Outer Ring Road

We must undertake to organize Monthly Cleanups, Environmental Awareness Campaigns and Health Education within our neighborhoods. We must ensure that we declare war against poor disposal of waste and above all, we must appreciate the value chain of proper management of waste as a resource. This calls to question the issue of separation of waste at source for recycling and conversion. We must all do this to ensure a structured process of waste management, ensure we make waste a resource and raw material by not mixing it all up, protect our health by ensuring proper disposal of waste, protect our brothers and sisters in the waste management sector by ensuring dangerous waste does not end up poorly disposed in the waste stream as is the case with medical and industrial waste and protect our food and water sources from contamination. Are we in shock why increasingly, deaths in our obituary columns are about death from cancer bravely borne?

Unless we are the proverbial ostriches who don’t want to acknowledge the obvious, cancers are emanating from our poor management of the environment which contaminates what we breathe, eat, drink, touch and smell. Cancers do not come from Mars; we manufacture, ferment and foment them here on earth, right in our households, factories, schools and colleges, hospitality industry, offices,  markets, prisons and virtually everywhere and then dispose them into the environment to get the victims; us.

We must start the journey to kick cancers out of our country. That fight begins with how you handle your waste. Do you mix it up, throw it on the streets, out of your car window, dump it in rivers and water sources?

Wheel Barrow Tyres made from Waste

It will grow your leafy vegetables yes, with all the attendant chemicals from the hospitals, sanitary waste, industrial waste, sewerage and all. It will “burble in the water you drink” from the taps and before long, you will die after a bravely borne fight with cancer, another statistic in what we could easily begin managing.

Each one of us has every reason to become A Clean Kenya Environmental Corp; in our jobs, education and studies, professions, portfolios, callings, vocations, hobbies, responsibilities and family life. We must raise an environmentally conscious society and bequeath this to the next generation. We must become the heroes/heroines of God’s gift to man; Cleanliness.

The environment is hurting from our lack of care, we must heal Kenya, Africa and the whole World in the words of the late Michael Jackson; Heal The World, Make it A better Place for ourselves and the entire children race.

We are Clean Kenya Environmental Corps, we are The Clean Kenya Campaign and you can join us by just joining in your professions’, vocations’, hobbies’, study group, interest group of The Clean Kenya Campaign and begin doing something about cleaner, safer and decent environment.

We must acknowledge the following groups who are firmly members of The Clean Kenya Campaign, we are cleaning Kenya and we are growing big;

1. Public Service Transformation Department at The Office of The Prime Minister- Head; Mr. Emmanuel Lubembe. 
2. A Better World/SOF-DI, Team Leader; Mrs. Brigit Frey, Founder. 
3. Akiba Uhaki Foundation, Team Leader;Mr Kepta Ombati, Programmes Coordinator. 
4. Ministry for Environment and Mineral Resources-Team Leader; Mr. Mohamed Ali, PS. 
5. Ministry for Public Health and Sanitation, Team Leader; Dr Kepha Ombacho- Chief Public Health Officer. 
6. Ministry for Nairobi Metropolitan Development, Team Leader;Arch Phillip Sika- PS. 
7. Ministry for Local Government, Team Leader; Prof Karega Mutahi- PS. 
8. Ministry for Education, Team Leader; Prof George Godia- PS. 
9. Ministry for Medical Services, Team Leader;Hon Professor Anyang Nyongo- Minister. 
10. Ministry for Youth and Sports, Team Leader; Hon Ababu Namwamba- Minister.
11. City Council of Nairobi, Team Leader, Mr. Tom Patrick Odongo- Town Clerk. 
12. Municipal Council of Mombasa, Team Leader, Mr.Tubman Otieno- Town Clerk. 
13. Municipal Council of Kisumu, Team Leader, Mr. Chris Rusana- Town Clerk. 
14. Municipal Council of Eldoret, Team Leader, Mr. Stansilas Ondimo- Town Clerk. 
15. Municipal Council of Kakamega, Team Leader, Mr. Newton Mkabue- Town Clerk. 
16. Municipal Council of Nyeri, Team Leader, His Worship the Mayor Cllr Edward Muteru.
17.  National Environment Management Authority, NEMA-Team Leader; Mr. Titus Simiyu- Director  Nairobi County. 
18. CHF International, Team Leader; Madam Selin Korir- Director, Kenya Tuna Uwezo Program. 
19. Mugumo Communications Limited, Team Leader; Mr. Rashid Juma-CEO. 
20. Ecopost, Team Leader; Madam Lorna Korir- CEO. 
21. Kenya Association of Manufaturers, Team Leader, Beatrice Kithinji. 
22. National Environment Trust Fund, NETFUND, Team Leader, Joan Kimani- Communications and Awards Manager. 
23. University Students for A Clean Kenya, Team Leader, Ms Wilkister Onyango- ADE. 
24. Religious Leaders for A Clean Kenya, Team Leader, Bishop Dr William Abuka. 
25. Kibera Youth and Women Networks, Usalama, Team Leader, Mr. Dairus. 
26. Pumwani Youth Networks-PYGRON- Team Leader,Mr. Stephen Singano. 
27. Usalama Viwandani, Team Leader, Mr. James Kanga. 
28. Tetra Pak Eastern Africa, Team Leader, Judy Karume- Environment Manager. 
29. National Youth Trust, Team Leader, Mr Nahum Okwiya- Executive Director, AYT. 
30. Foresight Technologies, Green Tech Solutions, Team Leader, Mr Mohamed Ahmed Shah, CEO. 
31. Kounkuey Design Initiative, KDI,Team Leader, Mr. Joe Mulligan, Country Director. 
32. Bamburi Larfage, Team Leader, Madam Magdalene Mwende, Ecology Manager. 
33. Christian Industrial Training Centre- Team Leader- Mr. Ephantus Mwangi- Manager.
34. Africa Alive/Dance 4 Life-Team Leader, Mr. Gorge Oyare, Programs Officer.

Let us all work for a Clean Kenya and a Clean Africa as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50 in Kenya. 

Otieno Sungu,

Director; Programmes and Communication

The Clean Kenya Campaign- TCKC

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Rock it Green; Jomo Kenyatta University

Dear Friends,
The week has been very active and busy with us at The Clean Kenya Campaign.
After having an extensive tour last week in Western Kenya, in the process paying a Courtesy Call on the Town Clerk at the Municipal Council of Kakamega, meeting the student Leaders at both Masinde Muliro University and at Maseno Unviversity, and then visiting the SOF-DI Projects in Western Kenya in the company of Ms Brigitte Frey, we started this week on a hign.
The African Nazarene University; A Clean Place
On the 7th Nov 2012, I was at the University of Nairobi at the Chiromo Campus where I was invited to address the students of Environment, Biology and Micro- Biaolgy in a Pre-Summit Forum for the World Students Summit for Sustainability. Ms Gladys Njeri, a 4th Year Environment Student at Kenyatta University set the tempo for the meeting before inviting me to address the students.
My address was on waste and waste management and the opportunities waste offer to us as a country and a people. I also talked on the three Pillars that drive The Clean Kenya Campaign namely; Environmental Management, Peace Building and Good Governance.
Lastly, I talked about the University Students for a Clean Kenya and invited the students to join us in this Forum and help us fight against money, greed, tribe and impunity being the key determinants to leadership. The Pre-Summit was also addressed by Mr. Jacob Orina from Transparency International Kenya.
Then on the 8th November 2012, in Partnership with Pygron and St John's Community Centre, we hosted a Pre-Clean-up Forum with the residents of Sofia in Pumwani Majengo at the St John's Community Centre where we discussed why we need to join hands in cleaning our neighbourhoods. We made it clear that the Clean-ups must remain non-political across all Kenya and greater mobilization and awareness creation ought to be supported. 
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Juja Kenya
We will be joining hands in cleaning Sofia on the 17th November 2012 in our last Clean-up for the Year and all are invited. The meeting was also attended by officials from the City Council of Nairobi led by the Ward Manager Ms Mary Wamuyu.
Thereafter, we made a Courtesy Call on the Manager Christian Industrial Training Centre Mr. Ephantus Mwangi. He was so appreciative of The Clean Kenya Campaign Initiative and promised their support and participation from now henceforth. He was joined in this meeting by Mr. Naboth Odinga and Mr. Willy Musau while I was accompanied by Mr. Stephen Singano of Pygron.

Oto during the talk at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology yesterday

Later in the day, I had the pleasure of holding discussions with Mr. and Mrs Copple, Ms Cassie Bixler and Ms Whitney, where we zeroed in on what we must all do as a people to work for a Clean Kenya. The effect of this meeting will be felt shortly.
Lastly, I was at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology where I had been invited to engage the students. It was very encouraging for me to here from the students that they are in the process of making their own Litter Bins, and I want to believe that this is a great initiative worth supporting.
Ms Munyo and Oto with a section of the Engieering Students at JKUAT yesterday the 8th Nov 2012
The meeting was facilitated by Ms Maryanne Munyao from the AISEC JKUAT and the Society of Engineering Students at JKUAT. It was nice engaging the students and I came out more stronger that indeed, a Clean Kenya at 50 is going to be possible.
On the 17th November 2012, let us join hands and help make a difference at Sofia in Majengo.

Let us all work for a Clean Kenya and a Clean Africa as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50 in Kenya. 

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,

The Clean Kenya Campaign- TCKC
Tel; 0724 365 557

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African Nazarene University for a Clean Kenya

Friends, 
May I start by wishing President Barrack Obama success as he defends the US Presidency. And may I wish Gov Mitt Romney well as well.
In the company of Rev Samuel Oketch of the Nazarene Compassionate Organization, we visited the African Nazarene University today and held discussions with the President of the African Nazarene University Students Council Mr. Gidraph Steve where we shared on our vision for a Clean Kenya.
We explained the thinking behind the formation of the University Students for a Clean Kenya as a Forum and invited him and his Team Members to also join.
Serene surroundings; the African Nazarene University 
He was impressed by the pillars that drive the University Students for a Clean Kenya and promised that his Team will be part of this Campaign.
Our Pillars revolve around a Clean Kenya where we practically join in our neighbourhoods to help clean the surroundings, after which we host a Forum that addresses issues that affect us as a people; money in politics, food insecurity, insecurity, greed, tribe and impunity amongst other things.
Oto, President Gidraph Steve and Rev Samuel Oketch at the African Nazarene University this morning
We are all agreed that money MUST not drive how we choose our leaders. And again, greed, tribe and impunity are things we MUST all fight against as we work for a Clean Kenya. We all need each other and it is our duty to build a Kenya that our Children and Family will be proud of. We must hence zero in on virtues that unite us as a people and not issues that divide us and create enmity; money, greed, tribe and impunity.
I was later given a chance to address all the University Students at the Chapel in the presence of the Vice Chancellor Prof Lear Marangu and I explained what The Clean Kenya Campaign is all about and the need for all of us to join the University Students for a Clean Kenya and any other Grouping for a Clean Kenya.

DVC Academics at the African Nazarene University, Oto and Rev Oketch at the Chapel

Prof Marangu was so appreciative of this Forum and she promised that she will be part of this Campaign for a Clean Kenya. The Clean Kenya Campaign and some of our Partners will make an official Courtesy Call on her shortly.
Later in the afternoon, I was hosted by a Team of Lawyers who are keen on initiating Lawyers for a Clean Kenya, and they are in discussions to consolidate. We will definitely give you details about this shortly.
We have made some progress and the chips are in place for the following as we gear towards a National Launch in January 2013;

1. University Students for a Clean Kenya,
2. Religious Leaders for a Clean Kenya, and now,
3. Lawyers for a Clean Kenya.

We are waiting for the rest.
On the 17th November 2012, we will be converging at Sofia in Majengo for the last Clean-up Campaign for this Year. It is shaping up, and it is exciting. Please be part of this great Transformation across all Kenya and do something in your neighbourhood. It is time we moved From Talking to Tasking all across Kenya.

Let us all work for a Clean Kenya and a Clean Africa as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50 in Kenya. 

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,

The Clean Kenya Campaign
Tel; 0724 365 557

Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com
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Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
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The Sofia Majengo Clean-up on 17th Nov 2012

Friends,

On the 17th November 2012, we will host our last Clean-up Campaign for this Year at Sofia in Majengo. This will be the biggest Clean-up Forum we have ever hosted and we are simply loving it. Many Teams led by The City Council of Nairobi and the provincial Administration have confirmed their participation.

We will be posting all the Teams that have so far confirmed their participation with us.

We had a meeting with the Leadership of Pygron and St John's Community Centre last week, and we agreed that we are going to mobilize ALL the households in Sofia for this exercise. We will host a Consultative Forum with the Residents on the 8th November 2012 at 9.00am at St John's Community Centre to help plan the logistics for the day, and again, to discuss as we normally do, the three Thematic Areas that drive The Clean Kenya Campaign namely;

1. Environmental Management,
2. Peace Building and
3. Good Governance.

We  are happy with the progress we are witnessing in Sofia, the levels of enthusiasm from the residents and the Youth Groups, and we are determined to show-case that Sofia, despite being an informal settlement, can be as clean as other parts of the Country. To this end, we are inviting the Cement Manufacturers to step forward and donate Cement for paving the neighbourhood. We are also inviting all those who feel that they can help out with sand and ballast to step forward. The Youth Groups in Sofia have offered to do the paving as their contribution to making Sofia Clean.

We are also inviting those who can give us seedlings, like the Greening Kenya Initiative, to step forward and donate seedlings to be planted by the residents even as we pave the alleys.

At The Clean Kenya Campaign, we believe in action. And we want to see this in all our Partners as we join hands to make Sofia a Clean neighbourhood.

As we close for December, other planning sessions will continue, for in January 2013, we will be mounting the biggest ever Clean-up Campaigns ever seen anywhere in the World. In partnership with several groups, we are putting last efforts into launching the University Students for a Clean Kenya, and tomorrow, we will be meeting with the Student Leadership at the African Nazarene University. Other such meetings are in the offing and soon, we are going to have in place the following groups;

1. University Students for a Clean Kenya,
2. Religious Leaders for a Clean Kenya,
3. Teachers for a Clean Kenya,
4. Doctors for a Clean Kenya,
5. Architects for a Clean Kenya,
6. Civil Servants for a Clean Kenya,
7. Lawyers for a Clean Kenya,
8. Jua Kali Artisans for a Clean Kenya,
9. Sportsmen for a Clean Kenya, and even,
10. MPs for a Clean Kenya.

Get in touch and let us drive this Campaign as a Team.

Let us all work for a Clean Kenya and a Clean Africa as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50 in Kenya. 

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,

The Clean Kenya Campaign
Tel; 0724 365 557

Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com
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Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
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The Week under Review- Oto's Notes

Friends,
It has been a very hectic 5 days for me. And I must appreciate that it has ended on a good note.
I have arrived in Nairobi as it is raining, and I am also pleasantly informed that my Team rained on another at City Stadium this afternoon. Congrats.
Now, I have just arrived back to Nairobi from Western Kenya. It all started last Thursday when I joined with a Team very keen in helping us sort our issues on waste and mis-management of the same in Kenya at the Mt. Carmel in Kilimani. I will be giving more details on the meeting after we have concretized our Action Plan.
Then, I joined with the National Youth Forum under the leadership of Migosi Nahum Okwiya to pay a Courtesy Call on Hon Martha Karua- the Narc Kenya Presidential Candidate in next Year's Presidential Elections at her Presidential Campaign Headquarters.This was the 3rd meeting with Presidential Candidates to help interrogate their vision on Employment Creation, the question of the Youth and Environmental Management. The National Youth Forum had made similar Courtesy Calls on Hon Peter Kenneth and Hon William Ruto- both Presidential Candidates in next Year's Elections.
The National Youth Forum Leadership led by Mr. Nahum Okwiya- 2nd Left, met with Hon Martha Karua on the 1st November 2012 at her Presidential Campaign Headquarters.
Similar interrogations with other Presidential Candidates are in the offing and we will be giving an informed opinion on all of them after the rounds of Courtesy Calls on all of them.
Next, I was at Kakamega on Friday the 2nd where in the company of Student Leaders from Masinde Muliro University, we paid a Courtesy Call on the Town Clerk- Municipal Council of Kakamega Mr. Newton Mkabue. We had a nice meeting and we were joined by the Chief Public Health Officer Mr. Patrick Mahulo. The Council and the Students will host a major Clean-up in Kakamega on the 17th November 2012.
Mr Patrick Mahulo- the Chief Public Health Officer, Odhiambo T Oketch, Mr. Newton Mkabue- TC Municipal Council of Kakamega, Mr. Emmanuel Makhoka- Chair- Student Leadership at Masinde Muliro University and Ms Maryann Mumbi- 
Later in the day, we had a closed door discussion with Student Leaders at Masinde Muliro University, before heading to Maseno University for another closed door meeting with Student Leaders.
With Student Leaders at Masinde Muliro University after our meeting
At Masinde, the Students were led by their Chairman Mr. Emmanuel Makhoka while at Maseno, they were led by the Vice President Mr. Mohamed Iman Sigat and the Secretary General Mr. Korir Goerge.
With Student Leaders at Maseno University after our closed door meeting
On Saturday the 3rd Nov, I joined with the Founder of A Better World/SOF-DI Ms Brigitte Frey in Emuhaya to inaugurate the latest Spring she has rehabilitated in the region. Ms Frey is a Member of the Board of Trustees at The Clean Kenya Campaign and one of our biggest benefactor and she is in the Country to inspect the works she is supporting in Western Kenya.
It is important to note that this is the 147th Spring A Better World/SOF-DI have supported in the 3 Districts of Emuhaya, Kwishero and Vihiga besides other major one off projects.
Ms Brigitte Frey welcomes me at the Echibiywe Springs where I officially inaugurated the Spring made in Memory of the late John Simunovich
SOF-DI has also greatly supported organic Farming in Western Kenya and I was able to see for myself what Ms Frey and her Team have accomplished. We visited several Demonstration Sites and we met very enthusiastic Farmers who took us to their homes and farms. This is a sure game changer in Western Province and I am proud that SOF-DI has been recognized by the Government of Kenya and given a Certificate of Appreciation for helping to create food security in Western Province through what they are teaching Farmers.
I will be giving details of my visit to the SOF-DI supported Farmers and the revolution that is Soya Beans Farming.
Oto and Ms Frey join with Farmers in one of the homes for a well deserved jig...
This has been some great time for me; meeting with a determined Team at Mt. Carmel in Kilimani, then joining the National Youth Forum in paying a Courtesy Call on Hon Martha Karua, before proceeding to Masinde Muliro and Maseno Universities for some candid discussions with Student Leaders. In between, a meeting with the Town Clerk and his Team in Kakamega, then the best of it all, joining Ms Frey in inspecting the great work SOF-DI is doing in Western Kenya.
It was a well taken Field Trip, and now, we are back to The Clean Kenya Campaign and on the 17th November, 2012, we are inviting all our Friends, Partners and Teams, to join hands in a Major Clean-up Campaign across all Kenya.
The Clean Kenya Campaign Team and the University Students for a Clean Kenya will join with PYGRON and the Residents of Sofia Majengo for a Clean-up in Sofia Majengo- Pumwani Nairobi.

Let us all work for a Clean Kenya and a Clean Africa as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50 in Kenya. 

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,

The Clean Kenya Campaign
Tel; 0724 365 557

Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com
Blogspot; http://kcdnkomarockswatch. blogspot.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
Facebook;University Students for a Clean Kenya

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THE CLEAN KENYA CAMPAIGN-TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRY.

Friends, citizens of Kenya, when we launched The Clean Kenya Campaign on the 15^th May 2012, we were clear in our minds what we wanted for Kenya. Our country is dirty, from the physical environment to the social and political realms. Our values are dirty, our leadership is wanting, our morals are debasing and our relations with each other are equally wanting.

We have become a careless society, we dispose our waste without care for the environment, our leaders are a selfish lot with no vision, we worship mediocrity and are easy to manipulate, bribe and incite. We can be called to kill for the lust of power and greed for wealth. All these are filth in society. We have become a dirty society in all spheres.

The filth that is our country.

Basically, we have lost the consciousness that distinguishes humans from base animals. This ladies and gentlemen, is how ‘dirty” Kenya has become.

It is this continuous spiral into a society without conscience that led us to begin a campaign that would clean the physical as we take stock of our social and political lives.Impunity, corruption, lethargy, mediocrity and tribalism rules our lives.

We are headed for another election year and already, mediocrity, tribal alliances, political shenanigans, innuendo, misinformation, abuses and hate form the bedrock of what most of our leaders and aspirants seek higher office.

We must redefine our lives with certain irreducible minimums. We must arise and redefine what our values, aspirations, common destiny and vision is as a nation. 

We all have a role to play for a cleaner, safer, decent and peaceful Kenya.

We all want to enjoy cleaner, safer and decent environments to live in, enough to eat, take our children to school, access quality and reliable health care, a job that puts food on the table, infrastructure that makes trade and movement easy and above all, service delivery that is commensurate with the tax burden we bear.

We are inviting all Kenyans of all walks of life to this Kenyan Initiative. We have already formed the University Students for A Clean Kenya with its membership already at over 5600 and Religious Leaders for A Clean Kenya, we want to invite Doctors for A Clean Kenya, Teachers for A Clean Kenya, Lawyers for A Clean Kenya, Civil Servants for A Clean Kenya, Architects for A Clean Kenya, Jua Kali Artisans for A Clean Kenya, Sportsmen for A Clean Kenya.

In essence, each and every one of us in our small ways can become a change agent for a clean Kenya where issues, good leadership, good governance, selflessness, integrity and sacrifice for Kenya is our rallying call.

We call upon all Kenyans to join this growing national consciousness. We are activating these networks to interrogate leadership, redirect leadership to issues and ensure we have peaceful elections that will lead to prosperity irrespective of which tribe our leaders come from. Hence, we are driving the KURA KWA FUHARA campaign. This is to ensure peaceful elections bring happiness through putting into office visionary and pragmatic leadership.

These networks will ensure we continue holding to account leadership in the devolved units. They will remain the social audit networks as we move into devolution.

The Clean Kenya Campaign is a non partisan campaign to take back our country from the sorry dustbin of mediocrity it has been thrown into. We will use our platforms for all our activities for positive engagements with fellow Kenyans to reclaim Kenya’s beauty and integrity both in physical cleanliness and as a peaceful nation.

Best,

Otieno Sungu.

TCKC

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