Kenyans On Twitter React To Kakamega 171 Billion Gold Find: Dirty Politics, The Humor , Fear Of Corruption and Dark History

It can't get more Kenyan than this!Discovery of significant deposits of gold ought be a proud, serene moment for a country like Kenya with a nascent mining sector. Right? Well.....

UK firm Acacia Mining that has so far spent 3.1 billion Kenyan shillings ($ 29.5 million) prospecting for gold in Kakamega,Vihiga, Siaya and Kisumu has announced the discovery of PROMISING deposits in Liranda corridor in Kakamega.

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Fight Against Insecurity Nabs Three In Emuhaya, Vihiga County

Anyone who knows Vihiga county in Western Kenya will describe it as a quite unassuming locale. It is not exactly what you would describe as a backwater corner of Kenya, but it has a gentle spirit. The inhabitants her are true reflection of the spirit of mirembe (peace).

 Francis Onguko Courtesy

If it is true that a society gets the leaders it deserves, given that a peoples' leaders are a reflection of the society they hail from, then the truism that people of Western Kenya are people of mulembe couldn't find a better home in Vihiga county.

None of Vihiga's leaders, now and before, can be labeled firebrand. Keeping this in mind, reports of a crime wave sweeping through Vihiga county these past few years come as an unpleasant surprise. 

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