Ranguma urges residents to create peaceful environment for investments.

Kisumu.

March 27, 2017.

Ranguma urges residents to create peaceful environment for investments.

Kisumu county Governor, Jack Ranguma has urged the residents of County to create a good environment for investors to invest in the town.

Speaking at a forum hosted by the Peace and Development Network Program to discuss and see way forward of moving peacefully as a county, the Governor said that the people of Kisumu should reflect on its future for the town to develop. 

He added that the town has had a history of investors moving away from the town due to bad politics and also the residents’ behavior of sending them away.

Ranguma said for the town to protect and attract investors they must create a peaceful environment for the investors to come.He thanked the church and the non-governmental organizations who are preaching peace in this county. 

Kisumu County has an annual budget of 9Billion Shillings and only receives 6 billion from the national government and is forced to add 3billion from local collections with more than 1million people to serve the town must depend on investors to increase the budget and to reduce high rate of unemployment.

“We hold such kind of peace forums because we want the life of the many people of Kisumu change day in day out but I have a problem with IEBC because it frustrated the Okoa Kenya initiatives to change a constitutional provision to increase monies to the counties’’, Ranguma said.

During the anti IEBC protests last year in May, two supermarkets were vandalized by goons who took advantage of the protests destroying properties worth millions of shillings in Kisumu city.

The Kisumu County Governor who seeks re-election during this year’s General Election urged the residents of the County to re-elect him so as to continue with the various development he has initiated during his first term in office.

He said during his tenure there has been greater improvement on infrastructure ranging from roads, Health facilities as well as in agriculture.

“I am appealing to the peace loving residents of this great county to re-elect me as their governor for another term so as to enable me serve them better and be able to complete the development projects we have initiated,” Ranguma said.

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