{"id":974150,"date":"2022-02-02T22:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/petroleum-and-mining-cs-munyes-declares-bid-for-turkana-governor-seat\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T22:25:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T22:25:26","slug":"petroleum-and-mining-cs-munyes-declares-bid-for-turkana-governor-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/petroleum-and-mining-cs-munyes-declares-bid-for-turkana-governor-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Petroleum and Mining CS Munyes declares bid for Turkana governor seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mpgbqojo8ivspofmd161fad6ab34612.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Petroleum and Mining Cabinet Secretary John Munyes receives defectors from ODM, Wiper, and UDA who joined the Jubilee Party in Turkana County<\/strong> [Lucas Ngasike, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Petroleum and Mining Cabinet Secretary John Munyes has declared his interest in the Turkana Governor\u2019s seat, with a promise to liberate the local community from abject poverty.\n<\/p>\n<p>Addressing Jubilee Party aspirants at Kalotum in Turkana Central sub-County, Mr Munyes also vowed to drum up support for ODM party leader Raila Odinga\u2019s presidential bid under the Azimio la Umoja movement. The CS, who also received more than 150 defectors from ODM, Wiper and UDA parties, said time had come for the Turkana people to get new leadership after decades of untold suffering. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether with other Turkana Jubilee leaders in Azimio, we held a consultative forum with an aim of strengthening our bond. We are consulting with like-minded parties in the Azimio movement towards forming a formidable force that will clinch victory in the forthcoming General Election,\u201d Munyes said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said Turkana people were ready to vote for Raila to become the fifth president. He dismissed their opponents as having poor track records.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"jWCVfU0E9m8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exclusive interview with CS Munyes on mining in Kenya | Business Today\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jWCVfU0E9m8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Munyes said his administration would address food security, water shortage, healthcare, illiteracy and unemployment among youth. \u201cWe have two huge water aquifers with more than 250 million cubic metres of underground water in Turkana, which has never been exploited. It\u2019s time we changed leadership and utilised the resources to improve the livelihoods of the vulnerable community. It\u2019s unfortunate that even a town like Lodwar does not have water, yet we have Napuu water aquifer in Lodwar has never been exploited,\u201d the CS said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said his administration would revive irrigation and the struggling fishing sector to boost foods security and enhance investment. \u201cWhy would the county spend Sh100 billion in 10 years, yet you cannot give water to your people? Even putting up one mega irrigation scheme to boost food security is a problem? These are some of the predicaments we need to reverse,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Others eyeing the seat are Turkana Central MP John Lodepe, Turkana South MP James Lomenen, Senator Malik Ekal,\u00a0Turkana\u00a0County Assembly Speaker Erastus Lokaale and Loima MP Jeremiah Lomorukai.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001436339\/petroleum-and-mining-cs-munyes-declares-bid-for-turkana-governor-seat\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petroleum and Mining Cabinet Secretary John Munyes receives defectors from ODM, Wiper, and UDA who joined the Jubilee Party in Turkana County [Lucas Ngasike, Standard] Petroleum and Mining Cabinet Secretary John Munyes has declared his interest in the Turkana Governor\u2019s seat, with a promise to liberate the local community from abject poverty. Addressing Jubilee Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}