By Robert Kinyua
Nyeri has become The Scouting City of the World after recognized as the final home of Lord Baden Powell.
The proclamation was made on Saturday during the 168th Scouts Movement Founders Day Celebration that were held in the town.
Kenya Scouts Association and Nyeri County Government has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding to provide a framework of collaborative initiatives and basis for mutual collaboration to promote Nyeri County as “The Scout City of the World”, with an ultimate goal of unlocking Scouting Tourism and the tourism sector in Nyeri County.
Speaking during the celebrations at Baden Powell Gardens, Nyeri Governor Dr Mutahi Kahiga applauded the move and requested other investors to support the scouts membership.
The Chief Scout of Kenya Prof Jacob Kaimenyi urged scouts countrywide to continue being messengers of peace and justice.
Tens of youths were recognised for their support to the young people through the scout movement and awarded for their various achievements in the movement.
The Founders Day celebrations is held annually in Nyeri at the Gardens where the Scouts Movement founders Lord Baden Powell and his wife Lady Olave Powell were laid to rest.
Baden Powell who was a British army was born on February 22, 1857, and died in 1941, aged 83 years.
When his wife Lady Olave Baden-Powell, died in Britain, her ashes were sent to Kenya and interred beside her husband at the gardens.
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