KENYA CAMPAIGN ON UGANDA RADIO
Dec 08, 2002
THE two main sides in the Kenya election campaign have opted to use Tororo’s Rock Mambo FM to appeal for votes from the people of Western Kenya.
By Abraham Odeke
THE two main sides in the Kenya election campaign have opted to use Tororo’s Rock Mambo FM to appeal for votes from the people of Western Kenya.
Rock Mambo FM’s signal is strong across western Kenya including areas of the Rift Valley.
The radio transmitter is on the tip of the towering Tororo Rock.
The first team to use the station was for Kenya African National Union’s presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta when the Kenyan Vice President, Musalia Mudavadi, toured western Kenya recently.
Between Thursday and Saturday, the campaign team for Mwai Kibaki of the National Rainbow Alliance dominated the Rock mambo airwaves with messages delivered in Ateso, Kiswahili and Luhya languages.
The KANU team bought air-time to issue special announcements calling on the people of Teso District (Kenya) and Busia (Kenya) to turn up for the Uhuru Kenyatta campaign rallies being addressed by Mudavadi.
At a public rally on Saturday, Mr. Raila Odinga of Kenya’s national rainbow Coalition (NARC) promised a much more stronger relationship between the Kenyans and Ugandans if Kibaki wins the elections.
Odinga, accompanied by senior NARC members including Moody Awori and Professor Wangari Mathai, was addressing a big campaign rally in Malaba (Kenya).
He said the government under Kibaki would immediately introduce universal primary
education to benefit the children whose poverty-stricken parents were unable to educate them.
Odinga claimed that President Moi and the mainstream KANU had done nothing to safeguard the Kenyan people against the killer HIV/AIDS.
The management of the station has issued strict guidelines that prohibit the Kenyan politicians from using dirty language against their opponents on air.
“Much as we want their money, we have warned Kenyan politicians not to use Rock radio to insult their opponents.
“They should only deliver clean mature messages that don’t trigger violence, and I am happy that the guidelines are being followed,†said Paul Etiang, the managing director.
The elections take place on December 27.
Moi Will step down after 26 years in power. He has been an MP for 49 years. Ends
THE two main sides in the Kenya election campaign have opted to use Tororo’s Rock Mambo FM to appeal for votes from the people of Western Kenya.
Rock Mambo FM’s signal is strong across western Kenya including areas of the Rift Valley.
The radio transmitter is on the tip of the towering Tororo Rock.
The first team to use the station was for Kenya African National Union’s presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta when the Kenyan Vice President, Musalia Mudavadi, toured western Kenya recently.
Between Thursday and Saturday, the campaign team for Mwai Kibaki of the National Rainbow Alliance dominated the Rock mambo airwaves with messages delivered in Ateso, Kiswahili and Luhya languages.
The KANU team bought air-time to issue special announcements calling on the people of Teso District (Kenya) and Busia (Kenya) to turn up for the Uhuru Kenyatta campaign rallies being addressed by Mudavadi.
At a public rally on Saturday, Mr. Raila Odinga of Kenya’s national rainbow Coalition (NARC) promised a much more stronger relationship between the Kenyans and Ugandans if Kibaki wins the elections.
Odinga, accompanied by senior NARC members including Moody Awori and Professor Wangari Mathai, was addressing a big campaign rally in Malaba (Kenya).
He said the government under Kibaki would immediately introduce universal primary
education to benefit the children whose poverty-stricken parents were unable to educate them.
Odinga claimed that President Moi and the mainstream KANU had done nothing to safeguard the Kenyan people against the killer HIV/AIDS.
The management of the station has issued strict guidelines that prohibit the Kenyan politicians from using dirty language against their opponents on air.
“Much as we want their money, we have warned Kenyan politicians not to use Rock radio to insult their opponents.
“They should only deliver clean mature messages that don’t trigger violence, and I am happy that the guidelines are being followed,†said Paul Etiang, the managing director.
The elections take place on December 27.
Moi Will step down after 26 years in power. He has been an MP for 49 years. Ends