The Azimio la Umoja One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga and President William Ruto are anticipated at Lodwar, Turkana County, for the Turkana cultural event known as Tobong'u Lore.
Turkana Cultural and Tourism Festival (Tobonglore), Lodwar town. https://t.co/GEYveNywdW
— William Samoei Ruto, PhD (@WilliamsRuto) October 12, 2023
On Thursday, President Ruto was scheduled to attend the festival, while Odinga was expected to participate on Friday.
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The annual celebration, now in its seventh year, gets underway on Thursday to highlight the Turkana people's traditions and portray Turkana as the birthplace of humanity.
In 2014, Odinga inaugurated the first Tobong'u Lore.
According to the 2019 census, there are 1,016,174 Turkana people or 2.14 percent of Kenya's population.
After the Kalenjin and the Luo, it is the third-largest Nilotic ethnic group in Kenya and the tenth-largest ethnicity overall.
