Important Commissioners from Kenya hold talks with CRC Chair and Staff

25 March 2010

(left to right) Richard Acheson, CRC, Reverend Lawrence K Bomett Commissioner, Stepan Kerkyasharian, CRC, Mzalendo Kibunjia Chair, Alice Nderitu, Commissioner, Yvonne Nambia Wamalwa Kenyan High Commission.

The Chairman and two Commissioners from the National Cohesion and Integration Commission of Kenya held lengthy talks with CRC Chair, Stepan Kerkyasharian, CRC Director of Community Relations,  Richard Acheson and CRC Media Officer, Warren Duncan, about ways of fostering community harmony and acceptance of difference in multicultural societies.

The Commission was set up after the tragic clashes based on tribal difference that followed the disputed Kenyan election in 2008. Members of the Commission are visiting Australia to study policies for maintaining and promoting community harmony.

The Kenyan Commission Chair, Mzalendo Kibunjia, has been joined on the visit to Australia by Commissioners Reverend Lawrence K Bomett and Alice Nderitu.

The commissioners were accompanied at the talks at the CRC head office in Sydney by Ms Yvonne Nambia Wamalwa, Deputy High Commissioner of Kenya in Australia.