SAVE LAKE VICTORIA

Three hours a go the lake is very clear only visible scattered carpets of hypo grass travelling slowly towards nowhere though headed somewhere-Homa Bay, three hours later the lake is a carpet of huge dreaded hypo grass, it looks beautiful though the beginning of a disaster, will they make it back home? I asked myself, women with small children, young men, men and women old and young are juts about to leave Homa Bay back home.

The only means of travel is a local engine boat a vessel that travels in the waters of the great fresh water lake-Lake Victoria, the wonder is that the vessel must first travel in a few meters of the hypo grass on the waters of the lake for hours before finding the waters of the lake. It took the three vessels three hours to travel two hundred meters in the hypo grass in the waters of the great Lake. A journey of a few miles begun with more miles, though finally after three hours of straggle the vessels left the hypo grass, the question is what can be done to the dreaded hypo grass that is slowly eating up the lake. Some days the lake is turned into a grazing filed but no livestock to feed on the hypo grass or livestock farmers harvesting the grass.

Apart from the harmful human activities around the lake the hypo grass is one of the symptoms of the dying ecology. Save Lake Victoria.

Save the sugar farmer

I don’t understand the role of industrialization in a country like Kenya because the way it looks to me industrialization is the source of poverty in Kenya. Most of the industries are the sources of suffering in the community and especially to the farmers and the people working in the industries. Bungoma District is one of the major sugar producers in the country “yet the government still imports sugar”, but the life of the farmer is reduced to a nightmare because of the time the local sugar company takes to harvest the cane is more than the required life of the sugarcane “yet the government still imports sugar” , to harvest the sugarcane the farmer needs permission from the sugar industry “yet the government still imports sugar”, some sugar plantations have overstayed and are loosing value yet the farmers cannot cut the cane and sell it to other alternative market because of the contract between the farmer and the local sugar industry that does not allow the farmer to harvest the cane “yet the government still imports sugar” . As a result of that the farmer is poor but with wealth in the shamba, OK even after harvesting the cane the money spent to take care of the sugar plantation is five times the money earned “yet the government still imports sugar”. The minster of agriculture William Ruto, The President, and the Prime Minister what are you up to?