The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) boss Richard Ngatia has mobilized the business community to support the candidature of Kenya\u2019s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga as a presidential candidate in the forthcoming general elections set for August 9th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ngatia said the business community had met and decided to back Raila\u2019s bid of becoming the country\u2019s next president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe as the business community will give Raila our support in ensuring that he succeeds President Uhuru Kenyatta as Kenya\u2019s next Head of State and Commander in Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces,\u201d said Ngatia<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ngatia who is the chairman of the General Assembly of the Great Lakes Region Private Sector Forum said that as the business community had confidence in Raila who serves at the African Union (AU) High Representative for Infrastructure Development can transform Kenya\u2019s and East Africa region economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe as the business community have confidence in Raila basing on his personality, experience and agenda for Kenya in improving our lives. If someone supports businesses it is key in transforming Kenya\u2019s economy and that\u2019s why we are behind \u2018Baba\u2019,\u201d said Ngatia<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ngatia who is aspiring to be Nairobi’s next Governor was campaigning for Raila during an Azimio la Umoja campaign rally at Tononoka grounds at the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ngatia reiterated Mount Kenya’s resolve of backing Raila for the presidency in the forthcoming general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “In Central, we are solidly behind Raila’s grand march to State House,” said Ngatia<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI) boss Richard Ngatia has mobilized the business community to support the candidature of Kenya\u2019s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga as a presidential candidate in the forthcoming general elections set for August 9th, 2022. Ngatia said the business community had met and decided to back Raila\u2019s bid …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12609,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608\/revisions\/12609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}