{"id":10962,"date":"2020-07-10T17:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=10962"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T17:57:09","slug":"atwoli-we-did-not-beg-for-a-bus-at-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/atwoli-we-did-not-beg-for-a-bus-at-state-house","title":{"rendered":"Atwoli: We did not beg for a bus at State House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli yesterday said that a visit by leaders from western Kenya to State House was fruitful as they secured goodies worth billions of shillings for the region.<\/p>\n<p>Atwoli dismissed claims that the leaders led by him, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa and Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya had gone to see President Uhuru Kenyatta to \u2018borrow a bus for Nzoia Sugar\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Other leaders who attended the meeting were governors Wilbur Otichilo (Vihiga), Wycliffe Wangamati (Bungoma), Patrick Khaemba (Trans Nzoia) and Sospeter Ojaamong (Busia).Atwoli said they had secured Sh62 billion-waiver for debts the sugar firms in the region had accumulated for decades and paralysed the backbone of the region\u2019s economy<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose claiming that we had gone to borrow a bus are misleading people. Our farmers have been burdened by debts in the sugar sector for decades and we succeeded in having the president write off the loans.\u201cThere is no government that has done that and ours was a success,\u201d Atwoli told the media\u00a0from his Kajiado home yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang\u2019ula, while accompanied by ANC party leader Musalia Mudavadi, told residents in Trans Nzoia that the Wamalwa and Oparanya group had gone to request for a bus at State House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli yesterday said that a visit by leaders from western Kenya to State House was fruitful as they secured goodies worth billions of shillings for the region. Atwoli dismissed claims that the leaders led by him, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa and Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya had gone to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[648,1487,1653,136],"class_list":["post-10962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-francis-atwoli","tag-governor-wycliffe-oparanya","tag-state-house","tag-uhuru-kenyatta"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Atwoli: We did not beg for a bus at State House - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli yesterday said that a visit by leaders from western Kenya to State House was fruitful as they secured goodies worth\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/atwoli-we-did-not-beg-for-a-bus-at-state-house\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Atwoli: We did not beg for a bus at State House\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli yesterday said that a visit by leaders from western Kenya to State House was fruitful as they secured goodies worth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/atwoli-we-did-not-beg-for-a-bus-at-state-house\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-10T17:57:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/07\/atwoli_we_did_not_b5f07574273c94.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"632\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"395\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/atwoli-we-did-not-beg-for-a-bus-at-state-house#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/atwoli-we-did-not-beg-for-a-bus-at-state-house\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Atwoli: We did not beg for a bus at State House\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-10T17:57:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/atwoli-we-did-not-beg-for-a-bus-at-state-house\"},\"wordCount\":221,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/atwoli-we-did-not-beg-for-a-bus-at-state-house#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/07\/atwoli_we_did_not_b5f07574273c94.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Francis Atwoli\",\"Governor Wycliffe Oparanya\",\"State House\",\"Uhuru Kenyatta\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/atwoli-we-did-not-beg-for-a-bus-at-state-house#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/atwoli-we-did-not-beg-for-a-bus-at-state-house\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/atwoli-we-did-not-beg-for-a-bus-at-state-house\",\"name\":\"Atwoli: We did not beg for a bus at State House - 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