(Host) The first member of the Kenyan Parliament to visit the United States after a controversial election in that country will be in Vermont tonight.
The Honorable Joseph Lekuton will be visiting a Vermont non-profit that does work in his region of Kenya.
Lekuton says his country is healing after the recent elections. But he says Kenya can learn lot from the United States, which he says is a country founded on compromises between different states:
(Lekuton) "We want to move that direction as a county, knowing what our issues that affect us are. How do you solve the equal distribution of land in our country? How do you solve the equal distribution of property? Equal distribution of jobs, income? And even education? We’re coming to grips with the reality today in that country. And I think the government has set up commission to investigate all those issues, even a commission to study what really happened in the elections. Until we know what our problems are, we can never solve them."
Note: Joseph Lekuton will be speaking tonight at 6:30 at the Maple Street School in Manchester. The event is a fundraiser for the BOMA Fund’s Cows for Kids Program.
Photo: Jane Sobel Klonsky