{"id":104323,"date":"2024-12-05T08:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T08:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/kenya-has-a-strong-candidate-for-au-post-wetangula-says\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T08:03:48","slug":"kenya-has-a-strong-candidate-for-au-post-wetangula-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kenya-has-a-strong-candidate-for-au-post-wetangula-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya has a strong candidate for AU post, Wetangula says"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 5 \u2013 National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has once again mounted a strong campaign for former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in his African Union Commission (AUC) Chairmanship bid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He stated that Odinga was the most suitable candidate to defend the interests of African Nations and facilitate attainment of meaningful reforms.<\/p>\n

Odinga is seeking to succeed Moussa Faki Mahamat, whose term is coming to an end.<\/p>\n

The elections are slated for February 25, 2025.<\/p>\n

Wetangula spoke during the courtesy call by the representatives of the Pan African Parliament in his office, Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Hon Wetangula said: \u201cKenya has a strong candidate for AUC Chairperson. When you go back home, ask your Foreign Ministers and Presidents to support him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team was composed of representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda, Zambia, Tunisia and Kenya.<\/p>\n

They are in the country on a fact finding mission for remedies to counter climate change and desertification so as to ensure effective soil management to enhance food sufficiency.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is being done on the soil, among them mining, agriculture among others. The question of soil management is a matter that needs urgent redress,\u201d stated Sakata Garry, the Chairman.<\/p>\n

Wetangula noted that while Africa was resource rich and had great potential, its population was still largely poor and yet to reap the benefits of its sub \u2013 soil resources, hence an urgent need to develop strategies that will turn the tide.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfrica lives on the soils. However we produce what we don\u2019t consume and consume what we don\u2019t produce,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

Though the Pan African Parliaments\u2019 role is largely advisory, Speaker Wetangula lauded the team for taking the lead in initiating the development of legislation on soil management in Africa to highlight the need for effective soil management for food security and climate change mitigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last 30 months or so, our country has been lucky as there has been constant rain in the food basket, we are sugar-sufficient, we are sufficient in cereal (maize) but when the rain stops, we are back to the drawing board. We need to move away from rain-fed agriculture and go back to storing rain and storm water and embrace engineered agriculture,\u201d Wetangula added<\/p>\n

Assuring the delegation of his support, the National Assembly Speaker who is among the pioneers of the Pan African Parliament, went on to stress the need to focus on soil resuscitation proposing management of challenges such as wind and water erosion, high acidity and general poor soil management habits.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 5 \u2013 National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has once again mounted a strong campaign for former Prime Minister Raila Odinga in his African Union Commission (AUC) Chairmanship bid. He stated that Odinga was the most suitable candidate to defend the interests of African Nations and facilitate attainment of meaningful reforms. Odinga is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}