Thousands of people who depend on Lake Victoria for survival have reason to smile after President Uhuru Kenyatta sent a team on a fact-finding mission to eradicate the notorious water hyacinth.
The team from the National government led by Jubilee party secretary general Raphael Tuju, ICT Cabinet secretary Joe Mucheru and his Sports, Culture and Arts counterpart Hassan Wario, are to find ways of eradicating the invasive weed as well as find ways the fish industry in the Lake region can be revived.
Tuju, while addressing the press yesterday in Kisumu said President Uhuru Kenyatta was concerned with the problems facing people depending on Lake Victoria terming the invasion by the hyacinth a “total environmental disaster”.
He also said the President had assigned them duty to look into ways how fish industry in the area can be improved. “The President looks at the situation as an environmental disaster which needs to be addressed urgently.
He is also concerned with the claims by the fish mongers in the region of an influx of cheap tilapia fish from the Asian countries which he said was posing economic tragedy to local traders,” said Tuju.
He said the team will tour areas that boarder Lake Victoria which include Bondo, Rarieda, Homa Bay and Kisumu to ensure they partner with the local leaders to fight the problem.
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