The County Government of Uasin Gishu will support the Scouts Movement as an avenue of raising children with good morals.
Governor Jackson Mandago said his government will be on front line in supporting the movement.
"The scouts organization is among ways that can be utilized to bring up children who are obedient and always willing to do that which is right," Mandago said.
Mandago spoke shortly after he inspected a guard of honor mounted for him by hundreds of scouts and girl guides from the region on Friday.
"I believe the scouts movement is an organization that can inculcate and uphold good morals in our children," Mandago added.
Deputy Governor Daniel Chemno on his part said, "nothing beats the pride that parents get when they realize that their children have unquestionable morals. This is what the scouts movement does, keeping these boys and girls upright in terms of morals."
After the guard of honor for their county patron, Governor Mandago, the scouts later stomped the streets of Eldoret, marching while marking the World-Wide Founder's Day.
Baron Baden-Powell, was the founder and first chief scout of the Boys Scouts Association and founded the Girl Guides Association.
Baden-Powell, born on February 22, 1857, was a British Army officer, a writer and an author who scripted the Scouts for Boys, a book which inspires the movement.
Powell died in Nyeri, then called British Kenya, on January 8, 1941.
He was also buried in Nyeri.
The Paddington (London)-born died at an age of 83.
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