Uhuru Kenyatta
"Today,
I held a meeting with U.S -based Senegalese musician, Akon, who paid me
a courtesy call at State House,
Nairobi. Akon affirmed his commitment
to light up Kibera and other selected
parts of rural Kenya. The initiative is part of his Lighting Africa
project that aims to provide electricity to a million households across
the continent by the end of the year. It is good to see that discussions
on scaling up supply of power to Kenyans that we started during last
month’s U.S – Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington, DC are bearing
fruits. I commend Akon for being a role model to African youths and I
would like to encourage others to emulate him by investing back in their
mother countries. We welcome this initiative and we will give him all
the support he needs." |
No comments:
Post a Comment