Nairobi, Kenya- The Jukwaa la Usalama caravan will roll into the Lower Eastern Region counties of Kitui, Makueni and Machakos starting tomorrow morning.
After a successful 6-day engagement at the Coast Region early this month, Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen will hold town hall meetings that bring together political leaders, security agencies, NGAOs, community leaders and the youth for candid conversations on the state of security and service delivery to the public in the respective counties.
Arrived in Kitui Town, Kitui County, to kick off our Jukwa la Usalama- Lower Eastern Region tour. We will hold a town hall meeting at Kitui High School and later a joint media interview with leading radio stations from the region.
Tomorrow, the CS will hold a meeting with the Eastern Region Security Committee in Kitui Town followed by a town hall meeting. Later in the evening, the CS will have a joint media interview with the region’s radio stations.
On Friday, the CS will pitch tent in Wote Town, the Makueni County headquarters for a similar engagement and conclude with the Machakos County chapter in Machakos Town on Saturday.
The town hall meetings are highly interactive and participants are free to air their views and grievances. The forums give the CS and his team an opportunity to get first-hand information regarding the security challenges that Wananchi feel the government should give attention to and suggestions for possible interventions. The CS also fields questions from attendees.
The security personnel and NGAOs also have an opportunity to bring to light the challenges they face in the course of their work.
Recurring security challenges such as inter-county boundary disputes, resource conflicts between herders from the North Eastern Region and farmers in the Lower Eastern Region, highway insecurity, cattle rustling and Gender-Based Violence are expected to feature prominently in the deliberations.
