Governor Ali Bunow Korane welcomes investors to Garissa county

High degeneracy and donor agencies from EU together with his excellency governor Ali Bunow Korane during a photo group session wearing the traditional Somali attire .

GARISSA—

Garissa county Governor Ali Bunow Korane has appealed to the international community and donors to help in matters of crop production and livestock rearing. This will ease in the current situation and challenges faced by the pastoral community who are at large in the county.

He also urged the international donors  to work hand in hand with the county government in efforts  to face the prolonged drought that  has prolonged in the area.

“I am appealing to the international donors to join my government in droughts mitigation program so that we serve our people” he said

Speaking at Garissa hotel today, the governor said Garissa is one of the least developed  communities  and the county is currently  undergoing  a challenging social transformation such as climate change and  environmental degradation  due to refugees  residing from the county  and  also the  vast growing population.

“The environmental degradation and climate change caused by the residents are major factor in the transformation we are going on” he stated.

He added that 90% of the residents living in the county depended on nomadic pastoralism for their lively hood but because of some serious whether pattern nomadic pastoralism as the key source is disappearing very fast.

The governor said there are some local donors who used to donate food to this region few years back to more than 150 poverty pledges in the county but that wasn’t the case as inside these donors were involved in corruption activities.

“Those donors used to stay in the entire month  until the last day that is when they make food donation ,as the county  has more than 150 poverty pledges We want you with your full support  to develop an alternative methods” korane said.

The high level dignitaries who comprised of high commissioners, Swiss Norwegian  and Swedish ambassadors  to Kenya  accompanied by the  frontier county development  council (FCDC) top officials and some other  donor agencies  were on familiarization tour  to check in areas of livestock and agriculture within the vicinity of the county  and also  forms more than 60%  of the county’s  economy.

However the delegates led by ambassador  Ralf heckler  from Switzerland  promised the governor they will give their full support and commit themselves to the  people of Garissa  in delivering  effectively mainly in areas of food production and modern  livestock rearing mechanism.