Mauritius Prime Minister backs Raila's AUC bid
Ruto said PM Ramgoolam assured him of support during a phone conversation.
8d agoEMMANUEL WANJALARealtime
National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula on Wednesday rooted for former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s African Union Commission bid during a meeting with representatives of Pan African Parliament
Wetangúla stated that Raila is the most suitable candidate for the AUC chairperson seat saying he will defend the interests of African nations and facilitate meaningful reforms.
“Kenya has a strong candidate for AUC chairperson. When you go back home, ask your foreign ministers and presidents to support him,” he said.
Raila is seeking to succeed Moussa Faki Mahamat, whose term is coming to an end. The elections are slated for February 25, 2025.
The representatives of the Pan African Parliament paid Wetangúla a courtesy call.
The team was composed of representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda, Zambia, Tunisia and Kenya.
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.
“Everything is being done on the soil, among them mining, agriculture among others. The question of soil management is a matter that needs urgent redress,” stated Sakata Garry, the Chairman.
Wetang’ula 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 - soil resources, hence an urgent need to develop strategies that will turn the tide.
“Africa lives on the soils. However we produce what we don’t consume and consume what we don’t produce,” he stressed.
Though the Pan African Parliaments’ role is largely advisory.
Wetang’ula 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.
“Over the last 30 months or so, our country has been lucky as there has been constant rain in the food basket regions, 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,” Wetang’ula added.
