HIGHLY ANTICIPATED LUO FESTIVAL POSTPONED, NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED

Media personality Phelix Odiwour, alias Jalang’o has issued a statement after his anticipated event dubbed, Luo Festival has been halted. In a letter addressed to Arena Media, the Ministry of Interior advised the organisers of the event to postpone it until the current COVID-19 precautionary measures on public gatherings are reviewed. 

“After careful considerations of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic and the containment measures in place, the committee hereby requests you to postpone the event until such a time when the current measures are reviewed in favour of physical/in-person public gatherings and meetings,” the letter read in part. 

In his statement, Jalang’o thanked everyone who took part in organising the event, further promising his fans to announce the new date of the event as soon as they get clearance. “I want to thank everyone who has always supported our event @luofestival, we want to thank God for keeping us alive to this moment, thank you to our sponsors and partners and mostly you the fans of Luo Festival! Thank you! We will announce new date and soon we will share great moments again,” he wrote. 

Adding, “I want to also thank the administrators and government who have walked with us through this journey to realise the success of this event, the presidency, the ministry of health, ministry of interior and National coordination and all the government officials who would have wanted this event to happen. Thank you.”  

Jalang’o added that the company has embarked on reimbursement of payments made for the tickets. “This moment is a sad one for us and a sad one to everyone who had booked a ticket to support this event, sad to the artists who practised and were ready to entertain you , sad to all service providers and everyone who was involved! We immediately start the reimbursement of all payments made, all tickets paid for,” the statement further read. The event was slated for tomorrow, Saturday, August 27.

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