Governor woos Chinese investors

By Peter Ochieng 

Bungoma governor Kenneth Lusaka on Monday encouraged Chinese partners and investors to harness the numerous investment opportunities in the Western region county.

In an address during the China Jiangxi - Kenya investment and trade cooperation promotion Conference at a Nairobi hotel, Lusaka said Bungoma is prime for investment, due to its strategic position.

"Bungoma is a frontier county in Western Kenya with proximity to Uganda and it is a gateway to East and Central Africa, bordering Busia, Kakamega and Trans-Nzoia Counties," he said.

"We have low hanging fruits in Bungoma that need to be tapped. I therefore urge you to extend your great pool of investments to the county."

He said the devolved unit is ripe for investment, in areas such as agriculture, health, infrastructure, trade and tourism among others.

Lusaka assured them of a conducive, competitive investment environment, attributing this to the Kenya Kwanza administration and its bottom up transformational agenda.

"We are all driven by the urge to empower our people. The president's key agenda is to make the country an industrialization hub by 2030 and so are county governments."

The meeting was attended by among others, the Principal Secretary State Department for trade and investment Abubakar Hassan Abubakar and China Jiangxi investors.

Led by Ren Zhufeng, the executive vice governor of people's government of Jiangxi province, the investors expressed interest in partnering with the county government of Bungoma on various development fronts, more so infrastructure.