Africities Summit in Ksm surpasses target, get 11,000 delegates
May 21, 2022
Africities Summit in Ksm surpasses
target, get 11,000 delegates
THE Ninth
Edition of the Africities Summit that has been held in Kisumu for the last five
days has surpassed the target of delegates attending it and get more than
10,000 guests.
The Summit
that has been held in Kenya for the second time has now seen an estimated
11,000 delegates registered for it when it begun on May 17 Tuesday last week
till today Saturday May 21,2022.
This is the
first time the summit is being held at an intermediary City which is Kisumu in
Kenya and in 2006, Africities Summit was held in Nairobi.
Addressing the
press after the official closure of the event today at Mamboleo Show Ground,
the United Cities and Local Authorities in African Secretary General Jean
Pierre Elong Mbassi said they expected about 8,000 delegates but have surpassed
the target by getting 3,000 more delegates who have attended the Summit.
Mbassi says
the Summit that has been held for the first time in an intermediary city has
been a successful one, adding that it is an eye opener that Intermediary cities
in Africa can hold such a Summit successfully.
He says the Africities
being held in Kisumu as intermediary city is a land mark where Africa will
really move on with its transformation agenda.
Kisumu
Governor Prof Anyang Nyong’o says they have learnt very good lessons that
include being done successfully if everyone plays his or her part.
Nyong’o says
with the guidance from the United Cities and Local Governments in Africa {UCLGA}
which is the main organizer of the Summit, Kisumu City has managed to hold the
Summit successfully.
The Kisumu
Governor says with a lot of faith and actions, they have made to host the
Summit.
He says all
the stakeholders have done very much to ensure that the event is a success.
“Planning is
very important but Planning without action leads to nothing Governor Nyong’o. This
is the biggest lesson we have learnt and I am sure it will be taken to other
intermediary cities while planning for future Africities summit,” Nyong’o says.
Kenya’s Devolution
Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa says it is very possible for any intermediary
city to host the event of such magnitude.
He says the
biggest benefit Kenya has gotten is to have the world discover Kisumu City and
its environment.
“Many come
to Nairobi and go back without knowing Kisumu. The last first days has seen
many visit Kisumu for the Summit and this is great indeed,” he says.
He says the
future of Africa lies in the roadmap created by the Africities Summit, adding
that Kisumu will opening to other intermediary cities to host such like an
event.
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}.
With
its headquarters at Rabat in Morocco, the Africities brings together the
leadership of Cities {Mayors}, Sub-National and Local Governments with the aim
of improving living standards of their citizens.
The
hosting of the Africities Summit rotates between five African Sub-Regional
Blocks.
This
Ninth Edition of the Africities Summit has been 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.
In
2006, Kenya hosted the Africities Summit for the first time in Nairobi and this
year in May, it has hosted it for the second time in Kisumu which is not its
Capital City but an intermediary City after Kenya won the bid to host it in the
year 2021 November.
The effects
of Corona virus pandemic made it pushed to May this year.
This
year’s Africities Summit theme has been the role of intermediary cities of
Africa in the implementation of Agenda 2030 of the United Nations and the
African Union Agenda 2063.
The Africities Summit has two major roles that include defining appropriate shared strategies in order to improve the living conditions of the people at the local level.
The other one is to contribute to the integration, peace and unity of Africa from its territories.
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