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Kalonzo’s NGO strikes deal with Govt

By Ben Mitukaa

A charitable organisation founded and run by ODM-K presidential aspirant Kalonzo Musyoka has struck a deal with the Government to promote tourism. The Kalonzo Musyoka Foundation is collaborating with the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife to conservation wildlife, promote afforestation, bee keeping and other conservation activities in Kenya’s wildlife sanctuaries.

The Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Professor Philip Kaloki joined Tourism minister Morris Dzoro, PS Rebecca Nabutola and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) director Dr Julius Kipngetich to officiate the branding of Meru National Park.

The occasion was also attended by top French embassy officials whose Government is assisting in capacity building programmes in the national park.Prof Kaloki said the Foundation has been picked by the Government to supplement efforts by KWS to conserve wildlife, adding that the Kalonzo Foundation had launched ambitious programmes in bee-keeping to help communities living around the sanctuaries uplift their living standards . The don lauded KWS for assisting the communities living around Meru National Park build schools and provision of other infrastructural services such as roads and water projects . He appealed to the Government to ensure the same development was initiated in other national parks such as the Tsavo National Parks as a way to stem human-wildlife conflicts . Prof Kaloki said the Foundation had embarked on programmes to realise its dreams of empowering the communities around the Parks. Kaloki is seeking to unseat Kibwezi MP, Kalembe Ndile, who is also assistant minister for Wildlife. Ndile was invited to the Meru function but did not turn up.