Kenya advocating Nuclear Technology and Science for Africa

Kenya Needs a National Atomic Energy Commission, Says Education Cabinet Secretary

June 27, 2018–“It is highly regrettable that we have not effectively harnessed nuclear technology for the benefit of our people,” said Education Cabinet Secretary, Ambassador Amina Mohamed, opening the meeting of Vice Chancellors and Representatives of regional institutions involved on human resources development in nuclear science in Africa yesterday. She has called for the creation of a central government nuclear Commission, to put under one umbrella, all of the country’s nuclear activities. “We in Kenya,” she said, “realize that we must establish a National Atomic Energy Commission for our country to coordinate all the work we are doing in different  institutions and offices.”

“The application of nuclear science and technology avails enormous benefits,” she said, “including mitigating climate change, enhancing generation of energy, improving human and animal health, and increasing food production.”

Secretary Mohamed is a passionate supporter of science and technology for Kenya and for Africa. On June 16 she praised China’s role in supporting science in Africa, through a new joint center in Kenya. Her commitment is reminiscent to that of Naledi Pandor, Science and Technology Minister of South Africa, also an African woman who is an outspoken promoter of science and education for Africa.