At Christmas, families celebrated together: feasts and new clothes. The distinctive feature of life in Bungoma and Mumias in the 1990s was these: expansive sugar plantations, jobs, regular income and happy families. Due to poor government policies, sugar cartels, smugglers, and subdivision of land into uneconomical units, the sugar industry is on a rapid decline. They don’t even raise these issues in Parliament.’A trip into the hinterlands of Bungoma reveals scattered and pale sugarcane farms. I look forward to celebrating this year’s Christmas with my siblings at my parents’ home in Bungoma.

Source: Standard Digital October 27, 2016 04:47 UTC