WESTERN KENYA IS TIRED OF MONKEY GAMES OF LAUNCHING AND RELAUNCHING OF PROJECTS THAT NEVER TAKE OFF

Dr.Eric Wafukho

Come Monday 2020, four Cabinet
Secretaries will be landing in Western Kenya in what is deemed to be one of the
worst moments in the history of the Mulembe nation. It is going to be a trip
camouflaged as inspecting projects but whose real impact shall see the giving
up of rights of the people of Mulembe nation in the management of their
resources.

You see, large gold deposits were
discovered in Kakamega County that run from Ikolomani in the South to as far as
Malava in the North.  After they were
discovered, the National Government through the Ministry of Mining has not
engaged the people of Kakamega but there seems to have been an engagement only
with the Governor of Kakamega County in what can be interpreted as personal
interests.  The Ministry of Mining is
said to have proceeded to give mining rights to a company without ever engaging
local communities on what their benefits will be. The Governor of Kakamega has
been very silent on this subject but has been more vocal on the Sugar sector.
Well, one of the activities that is scheduled when the Cabinet Secretaries land
in Kakamega on Monday will be the handing over of the gold refinery   in Kakamega by the Governor Oparanya to CS.
Munyes.  Why has there been this great
secrecy about gold in   Kakamega? Which Company
is this that got mining rights? What are the faces behind this company? These
are questions that Hon. Musalia Mudavadi was in Western Kenya asking the
leaders to come clean.

After taking over the gold
refinery under great opacity, the team will then drop down to Vihiga in the
afternoon of the same day where the granite factory will be handed over to the
National Government by Governor Otichillo. 
There has been no evidence of public participation in which the
interests of the people of Vihiga are protected.

With these two major resources of
the people of Western Kenya firmly transferred way from the people without much
furor, the program is then going to see Cabinet Secretaries launch for the
umpteenth time roads that have been launched and relaunched over and over. This
includes the Misikhu-Brigadier road which will be relaunched on Monday at 10am.
This is the same road that was launched by Jubilee in their first term and
around elections of 2017. Well, the CS, Transport will be on the ground to repeat
the circus on Monday.  Another road which
will be launched and re-launched is the Musikoma-Buyofu-Navakholo-Mungatsi
Road  which  CS James Macharia is expected to launch at
12:30pm.  Later at 4:30 pm the CS is
expected to inspect the Gesambai – Shamakhokho-Musena Road.  As an icing on this circus, the CS will visit
the Kakamega Airstrip.

The pet subject of sugar will see
a team converge at Nzoia Sugar Company at 11:00am where they are expected to
talk about sugarcane reforms. This is expected to be repeated when the team
moves to Mumias Sugar at 1:30 pm on the same day. These reforms are emerging
out of the Commission of Inquiry as had earlier been proposed by Hon. Musalia
Mudavadi but they are emerging out of a taskforce report which seems to have been
massaged to hide the ugly truth about the real cartels which have sent the
sugar sector into HDU.  The question is,
who is this who is in a hurry to design cosmetic changes in the sugar sector
instead of going to the root causes of what ails the sector?

Does this explain the frenzy with
which heightened activities were witnessed in Western Kenya?  Could this explain why CS Eugene and Governor
Oparanya have been on the ground crisscrossing the region and talking about
development? Was it to auction our gold as our sugar goes south without a
Commission of Inquiry and in turn without real sugar reforms that benefit our
people?

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