The peaceful environment that Nakuru County has had for the last four years has contributed greatly to the improvement of education in the county.
According to County peace monitor and advisor Solomon Wanguru, the county had managed to solve many of the internal conflicts in the area and hence create a conducive environment for students to learn.
Speaking in Naivasha on Tuesday, Wanguru said that in this year alone, the county has been able to send more than 4200 students to public universities.
“We have been able to resolve many of the conflicts in the county. They range from land disputes, Mau encroachment, political incitements, cattle theft, negative ethnicity and the squatters and IDP resettlement. We have been able to sort out this differences from the grassroots level and hence push for more peace in the county,” said Wanguru.
He further called on leaders to avoid defamatory remarks, which might spark violence in the area, urging them to be ambassadors of pece.
Nakuru county Governor Kinuthia Mbugua cited that they had invested so much in the peace campaigns in the area and they were bearing fruits.
“We have based our leadership on promoting peace. Earlier on majority of the students could not study in peace due to cattle raids or in extreme cases of political violence. The frequent displacing of people and subsequent cases of IDPS had brought a huge setback in our town. We have been able to rebuild peace from scratch. This will bring proper investors and the business community will expand further,” said Mbugua.