Kisumu Will Host Africities conference successfully, says CEO

 

The Chief Executive Officer of African Cities{Africities} 2022 Edition Joe Ager addressing a meeting between Journalists and officials of the Africities in Kisumu today-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

By Dickson Odhiambo

March 4, 2022

Kisumu Will Host Africities conference successfully, says CEO

KISUMU City will surely host the ninth edition of African Cities {Africities} successfully in May this year, an official of the Summit has said.

The Chief Executive Officer for the 2022 Africities Edition Joe Ager says already preparation are at top gears to ensure that the Ninth Edition of Africities is successfully held in Kisumu from May 17 to 21 this year.

Addressing a meeting of Journalists and officials from the Africities today in Kisumu, Ager said already the National Government has embarked on expanding the terminal at Kisumu International Airport so as to help in accommodating bigger planes expected to land in Kisumu during the five day international event.

Ager says the Mamboleo-Airport Road is also being tarmacked so as to allow easy access to the convention center during the Africities Summit.

The Chief Executive Officer says there is also the construction of a 4,000 sitter Convention Center at Mamboleo show Ground where the Africities Summit will be held.

Ager adds that already the construction of the Convention center is at 40 percent, adding that the secretariat is optimistic that it will be soon completed and the conference will be held there.

He says the contractor at the site has assured the organizers of the event that the construction will be completed in time and used to hold the International conference, adding that the work is ongoing 24 hours in shifts.

The Ground breaking ceremony for the shs 1.4Billion Convention Center was done in July last year and it has taken nearly eight months now for the ongoing construction.

The then Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa who officiated the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of the Convention Center within the Agricultural Society of Kenya Show Ground at Mamboleo said the Conference will also have economic connections within the inter land.

The Chief Executive Officer has also hinted that the Secretariat at the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa {UCLGA} has hired a very competent experts on organizing International Conventions to manage the forthcoming Global event.

“We are very sure that the forthcoming Africities Summit to be held in Kisumu will be very much successful. This is because preparations are in top gears to ensure that it is a great success,” he says.

Kisumu Governor Prof Anyang Nyong’o says the hotels in Kisumu are already booked for the Africities summit, adding that the Conference will host about 10,000 guests during the five day event.

Nyong’o in a speech read on his behalf by the County Executive Committee Member in charge of Tourism, Sports and Culture says the Information Technology is currently being expanded in Kisumu.

The African Cities{Africities} is a pan-African conference held every three years since 1998 when the first meeting was held in Abidjan, Cote d’ voire. It is being convened by the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa’s {UCLG-A}.

This Ninth Edition of the Africities Summit will be held in Kisumu as an intermediary city from May 17 to 21 this year. The Eight Edition of the summit was held in Marrakech in Morocco in 2018.

The Media Council of Kenya is one of the key players in the forthcoming Africities Conference in Kisumu.

Chief Executive Officer of the Media Council of Kenya David Omwoyo has urged journalists to be very objective while reporting on the issues of the Africities and other stories gearing towards promoting development in Nyanza region and Kenya in general.

He says  Media Council of Kenya will surely help in identifying duly accredidated Journalists by the Council to give coverage to the five day event that will be held in Kisumu from May 17 to 21 this year.