GOVERNOR SUPPORTS the President on Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)

A section of County government leaders in support of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) at Capitol Hill, Nairobi on 25 February, 2020

GOVERNOR SUPPORTS the President on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)

By Jeremiah Mutuanga

President Uhuru Kenyatta can confidently count on the support of Embu Governor Martin Wambora in his bid to unite the country and avoid post-election violence in future. 

His visit to Capitol Hill with his counterparts a day before the onset of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) function through Embu County to Chuka town in Tharaka Nithi County to Meru cements the governor's support. 

President Kenyatta chats with leaders
of the greater Meru. PHOTO: File

The grand finale will be a mega rally in Meru on 29 February 2020.

The priory much embattled but now heroic leader had already made his stand clear while addressing the crowd during the 56th Jamhuri Day celebrations at Runyenjes in Embu County on 12/12/2019. 

Using an anecdote to express his reverence for the President, Governor Wambora said, "An elder sitting under a tree sees further than a lad atop the same tree"

While expounding on the statement, he said that if the President in his wisdom decided to make peace with former Prime Minister Raila Odinga through the Handshake, hence BBI, he (Wambora) is in the forefront to support the same.

It did not escape the public ear to note that in spite of the President's youthful age in comparison to that of the Governor, the latter considered the former an elder. It was a clear indication of the high esteem in which the Governor holds the president.

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