Taita/Taveta county has two major National parks, Tsavo east and west which covers more 60% of the land, 32% taken by private land and the rest remains shared by the community and other citizens of Kenya.
To be more realistic, this is a God given reward to the community, we must be the first people to benefit from this, but as I'm writing as at now the community takes it as a curse, reasons being people loose life due to wild animals,their agricultural products are being destroyed, compensation takes too long and it's like a drop of water in Indian ocean.
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| Lugard Falls, Galana River, Tsavo East National Park |
What we need to see, grants from kws to upkeep the standard life of the community, many projects by the name of kws.The worst party of it is what happened on this Thursday during the sell of old items of kws such as buses, graders, tractors and so many other items.
To me, to upgrade this county as the beneficiary, the management of kws could have sat down with the governor and come up with a good proposal on how to get some of these item such as graders and tractor no matter could it be in form of a loan.
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| Elephants crossing river at Tsavo National Park |
This good be a new beginning of the county in terms of county properties. Believe me or not, most of this items went outside of this county, in favour of the larger community which always other kenyans put a lot of question marks on them. As a lesson to this county, we must set our county by laws which in future will be generate an income to this county.
Charity begins at home, we are party and parcel of these parks, we need to see our youth employed at 50%, tenders to be given to the common community etc.
By Gibon Mwakichi - Blogger.
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