Mumias Sugar didn’t just die, it took jobs, farmer incomes, local businesses and a major tax base with it. Then we watched HELB get dismantled and replaced with a system that Kenyans struggle to understand and students struggle to access.
H.E @edwinsifuna knows the politics; what Kenya needs now is the economics, revive productive institutions, protect the tax base and stop killing what actually generates wealth.
Na msijifanye hamjaskia akisema "Dada yangu Abbie Zuena kutoka Nakuru" Aii Mr President 🙌🏾🙌🏾
#SifunaWaKenya
This is what we call organic love and grace.
Imagine at 8pm bado Lumakhanda was full. People were still waiting for Sifuna. They aren't waiting for 200 bob or goodies, just to see him and listen to him. He is their hope and future.
They called Sifuna poor and said he has no money, but he has millions of supporters.
Raila must be smiling from heaven seeing his son Edwin Sifuna get this kind of organic love.
Mumias Town was once a budding industrial powerhouse and the heartbeat of Wanga Land, Western region and Kenya sustained by the hard work of sugarcane farmers, traders, workers and businesses.
Today, that heartbeat has been weakened, due to years of targeted interference of the sugar sector by cartels importing sugar through those in power that has left farmers hopeless and local economy impoverished.
As we engaged the people, it was clear that the collapse of Mumias Sugar and other sugar industries are fundamentally due to private interests and political deals. Linda Mwananchi, is about listening and tackling issues and restoring hope among Kenyans. @LindaMwananchi_