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SUGAR WOES

I think I have finally figured what is going on in the sugar industry.  I'm looking at the other subsidiary industries in agriculture and I'm convinced the government is chief suspect in this perennial problem. Sugar problem is an economic sabotage to the people living around the sugar belt. Now this is my opinion. The genesis of sugar problem in the market is the Jubilee government itself. Immediately Jubilee came into power, sugar companies started crumbling piece by piece. A people who are economically disempowered are also politically disenfranchised. Political muscles are supported by a skeleton of economic power. Am saying the death of sugar factories was a well orchestrated onslaught against the people of western Kenya. This is why the sugar cartels are an interconnected framework of sub-cartels touching on those to whom the back of governance of this country stops. Paralysing or murdering the sugar industry means economic disempowerment of the Western part of Kenya

GIKOMBA FIRE TRAGEDY.

The first time Ugandan police started harassing Kenyans living in Ugingo and Migingo islands, the talk out there whispered in hushed tones was that the government had clandestinely sold the islands in lake Victoria to Yoweri Museveni's government hence the presence of Ugandan forces taking charge on formerly Kenyan island and waters. Since then investigations, survey and agreements were made and it was found those islands lie within our territorial waters. Sadly, Ugandan forces still intimidate, harass and take charge of security in these islands. Yesterday Kenyans woke up to another instance of a perennial Gikomba fire tragedy. The most widely accepted view, is that, "gikomba imeshauzwa," and now the infernos are meant to force out people. Since then several theories seeking to explain and unlock the deadlock of Gikomba fire tragedies have emerged. The Fist theory is of course that of a possible land grabbing where it is alleged some powerful political and or priva