President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweri Museveni, on Thursday, September 12, signed an agreement that would promote peace among the Turkana, Pokot and Karamojong communities.
Speaking during the launch ceremony dubbed Cross-Border Sustainable Peace and Development, the president stated that the agreement would help development in the region.
"This programme, in cooperation with the UN, will help all of us ensure that we have peace, our people live together and also enable us to develop," the president noted.
While thanking the Ugandan president, the president cited that development would not be possible without peace, adding that this would steer poverty.
I want to thank President Museveni for the work he has done here to ensure that this region which was a conflict zone is now a region of peace," the president expressed.
The commander in chief of the armed forces noted that the pact would help develop amenities including schools, dams and health centres that would be accessible to all communities in the cluster.
The president was accompanied by other leaders including; Cabinet Secretaries Eugene Wamalwa (Devolution), Simon Chelugui (Water) and John Munyes (Mining).
On his part, the Ugandan president also thanked president Uhuru for the various reforms that have enhanced cross-border trade and people-to-people interactions between Kenya and Uganda.
He also called for the United Nations involvement in lobbying donor institutions and development partners to support more regional and inter-country roads.
"One of the advocacy points I want you (UN agencies) to help us with are these cross-border roads. We have already succeeded with His Excellency Uhuru with the road from Mbale through Kapchorwa, Suam to Kitale in Kenya. That one is being worked on.
"In the same way, we want to work on the road from Moroto through to Kenya. We also need to work on the road from Nakiroro to Kenya... But above all, I want them (UN) to help us with the road crossing through Kenya to Southern Ethiopia," President Museveni expressed.
