Augustine Orenge, a Journalism and Mass Communication graduate from Presbyterian University and Levis Musembe, Human Resource Management graduate from Moi University prepare to enter into a gold shaft in Buvasi Village in Vihiga County. “The only option left was to swallow my pride and join hundreds of artisanal miners working in mining pits near my village.”Musembe is among a group of university graduates in Vihiga that have taken to gold mining. Huge depositsHe works at Maloboti gold mine, one of the largest in the village with close to 100 artisanal miners. Locals believe the village is endowed with huge deposits of gold but there is no guarantee one will get a gold nugget even after toiling the whole day. He went back to the village and joined his childhood friends, some of whom never went beyond lower primary school, in excavating gold.

Source: Standard Digital July 31, 2021 22:15 UTC