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THE COUNTY OF SHAME: VIHIGA COUNTY (Part two)

Vihiga County is probably home to the laziest and empty headed individuals who have lost sense of vision and foresight. It houses petty hecklers and rampant gossipers who spend better days gossiping and talking and not doing anything constructive. The county houses perfectionist by lip-service and professionals by that hearty rebuke and counter remark. In short, Vihiga is home to the contractors of castles in the air. Out of the 180,112 pupils who join primary school, only 36, 413 get to high school. That’s only 20% of the total primary enrolment! Finally, 12.7% get to finish their secondary education. That is totally incredulous! It shows a total ramshackle in the literary world, it clearly inundates a society that has totally forgotten all about the fundamentals of education and above all does not appreciate the education system at all! A county that has more teachers than any other specialist espouses a county that drinks water and serves wine. What is the essence of produci

GIVE a KENYAN THE REASON TO REGISTER AS A VOTER

The common Mwanainchi has a mountain of questions to ask about the ongoing voter registration exercise. He/She wonders why in the first place he should register. One Kenyan lamented that He has so many voters cards under his name and yet, he is being called for fresh registration. Does the govt have so much money to plunge into voter registration yet we have so many of us languishing in abject poverty? He posed. I looked at him sadly because I understood. His tattered clothes spoke thousands of tears in famine. We had fresh registration exercise a year ago, for the referendum. our voters cards are still fresh and not tattered, what is there new that we need to get? another asked. I do not usually have answers to such questions myself. AS I call upon Kenyans to register, I seek answers to the above questions. Seriously speaking, the apathy shown towards the current voter registration comes from the growing knowledge on democracy  and its oppression in kenya. It is the understanding

THE COUNTY OF SHAME: VIHIGA COUNTY (Part one)

Vihiga County borders Kakamega County to the north, Nandi County to the East, Kisumu County to the south and Siaya County to the west. The county boasts of having a population of approximately 554,622 people on an area of 530.9km 2. The percentage population is 47% males and 53% females which contribute to 1.44% of national population. The annual population growth rate of the county stands at 5.3%. The population density is 1,045 people per km 2 . The proposed county capital will be Mbale.        The county lies in the rain rich region of western Kenya with an average annual rainfall of   between 1,800mm-2000mm. and an average temperature of 24 0 C making it a fertile ground for cash crops such as tea and coffee. Coffee died and was buried in the early 1990s leaving tea; a predominant cash crop. The county could also do well in the plantation of maize, beans and vegetables among others. She has a tea processing factory at Mudete along Chavakali-Kapsabet road. Talking of Chavaka