Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni presented a gift to Luo elders during the Piny Luo Cultural Festival in Siaya County.
Speaking during the event on Thursday, January 2, Museveni presented the elders with a picture taken during the tenure of Kenya's founding president, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
The Ugandan Head of State disclosed that he had already given the pictures to President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
"Because I have come here and I've been gifted, I also have a gift for you. This picture was taken on June 3, 1963. This is when Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere Milton Obote, and others met in Nairobi and declared that they would form the Federation of East Africa during that year.
"But after a little while, some of them started developing cold feet. That is why in 1964, Nyerere and Karume went ahead and formed Tanzania from Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Because you said there are different chapters of the Luos, I will give you more copies, five of them," President Museveni remarked.
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During the event, President Museveni and President Ruto were installed as Luo elders.
Meanwhile, he declared his support for Raila's bid for the African Union Commission Chairperson position, even as he declared that the real power was within the African heads of state.
"We are supporting the candidature of Raila for the chairmanship of the African Union. He will help us do some mobilization and brainstorming, but the real power is with us here. We are in charge of these states. We are the ones who can say we move and we move. For him, he can talk but the people with power are the ones in charge of these governments," President Museveni remarked.
