We Have Wasted River Turkwel and our Productive Soils

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Hi All

Turkana is a Rich if not richest County in Kenya. I happen to have visited some areas of this great county. Go to Turkana South (angolol) zone, go to Turkana East (Morulem) and all you see is green and green and green. The lands have been irrigated so much, not greens, not veges, not maize, not beans, not fruits, no sugarcane, no millets, no sorgum can miss here.

During harvestig time all stores are filled with stocks of food other farmers sell their produce to National Cereals and Produce Board. others go ahead and export to other counties, talk of West Pokot and Tranz nzoia, at some point I wonder so much, that there is a household in the north, central and west that can not afford  meals for some days and then am like noooo, something must be done, the exporting and selling of the irrigation produce clearly shows us that these farmers and their households have had enough stored for some time until another harvest season and then resort to selling off some for other financial needs.

Am very sure if we go there way, Turkana County will be food secure. I have gone round Turkana County and found that we have many Irrigation-possible sites: In turkana west we have Letea/loritit, Lokangae, Lopur, Nanam, Loreng,Lopwarin, Tarach, Songot et al, Loima has Lochor emeyan,Koono, Kalemnyang, Kangalita, Puch, urum, lorengippi, Turkwel, Napeikar, Nabuin,Nadapal et al, Turkana Central has all the areas along River Turkwel, Lorengelup, Chokchok, Napuu, Naotin et all.

We should not be talking of Dog meats again, hunger is a natural disaster that can be caused by climate change and its negative impacts, but again this s something we an control moving forward. Talk of setting up Irrigation schemes Policies, atleast I have managed to identify some rich soils around Turkana County, lets make boreholes, dams, make use of the River Turwkwel and River Kerio that apparently are the only two permanent rivers around.

Small scale farming is already underway along River Turwel and Kerio, which is a good gesture, But we need to encourage comercialization and Value Chain Irrigation Schemes farming, all the produce from these farming ends in the Households, such for markets for these guys will do them good.We have institutions that can consume these products, Schools, Lodwar District Hospital, Medical Training College, areas of residence around Turkana County, we need to encourage domestic markets on the same as we go on vnturing into interior Turkana.

Am confident this is possible, am sure of a Food Secure Turkana, it does not bring a good picture of us that we are in he news for all bad reasons, Hunger stands tall among all, we can not allow this to happen when we can help ourselves first. Lets do this and we will have a VERY FOOD SECURE TURKANA. My Prayers.

Thank You

Kablit Ewoton Samuel
National Youth Council
Turkana County

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Orphan Fisher-Child at the Waters

NAME: Brian Amaniman

YEARS: 11 yrs

RESIDENCE: Turkana County, Turkana Central District, Kalokol Location, Namukuse sub location

It is a sunny day around Lake Turkana, am here to buy fish pieces for my lunch at the Longech arc that is partly surrounded by Lake Turkana. Almost everybody is fish monger here, from female to male, big and small; one such person is Brian!

Brian has his only uncle who practices fishing in the jade sea, since brian is still young, the only way he can help his uncle is to assist in scrubbing fish scales and washing them. They later sale the fish to fish mongers who come and buy them at the sea shore. Brian practices these every weekend, every time there is no school. He is therefore part of feeding his grandmother who cannot be able to feed herself, his uncle ESEKON is married and live with his wife, so brian has to take care of the Granny; fetch water, go to the market and buy food, fish to support the family and at the same time attend school.

Brian is in class 6 at Longech Primary School. He looks forward to finishing school and become a medical Doctor in future.

Brian Lost all his parents at the Lake, on day the parents had gone fishing at the lake, heading towards Loyangalani; the other side of the lake since they had want to get the many fishes found there. Suddenly there was storm as they reached the middle of the sea; they could not control the POSTS home-made RAFT. They capsized due to the heavy storms and tides, the grandmother, the uncle and brian received the news with much grief, that they couldn’t even be able to bury the bodies with final respect

There are many cases similar to Brian’s along the lake, many cases of dropouts are rampant here, as a source of livelihood for many kids who have lost their parents due to capsizing or rather normal deaths.

Brian hopes that one day he might be able to complete his education, get a job and help other orphans like him, most desperate people around Longech, as it stands now he is dedicate to ensure her grandmother feeds every day, gets water among others.

He is appealing therefore for any well-wisher who shall enable him complete his education and help in supporting his grandmother.

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Turkana Food Security

By Kablit Sam – Youth Agenda, Kenya.
Turkana County has always been considered the most hunger stricken regions of our country. References have always been made that Turkana people have always opted to eating dog and cat meat. Whenever Hunger is declared a national disaster, Turkana tops the charts; whenever African Union Leaders meet in Addis Ababa to discuss food security in Sub- Saharan region, Northern Kenya never misses the chance to be in the topic. And whenever topical issues on hunger are discussed on papers, you shall always see Turkana People photos being displayed on papers o explain how severe hunger is.
Walk in any streets in Kenya, most of Turkana people will not want to be associated with their hunger stricken County, they will always introduce themselves but won’t mention where they come from
Thank God there is now a Todonyang Irrigation Scheme in progress. I salute the Prime Minister of Kenya and whomever is/was involved for coming up and initiating this project. We do not want to depend on relief food anymore; we want to produce our own food in surplus. We don’t want to feed ourselves, we want and we will also feed the Kenyan Nation
However full materialization, in terms of sustainability and fair distribution of its harvests, of this noble project may never be seen if proper management is not put in place. I fear that if wrongs hands shall be appointed to oversee the project, then our hopes for FOOD SECURITY shall never see the light of the day. I therefore call upon us to make sure we bring in good leadership; this calls for us to select a competent Manager of Resources (besides the GOVERNOR’s supervision) who shall in turn appoint experts not only to run the project but to also run other projects effectively and productively.
The power project is also in the offing. I foresee in the near future most of the unemployed youth getting jobs here. I can see our County Economy growing at higher rate. But we must employ good political leadership. I do not want us to rise to power and then misuse everything that’s at our disposal; let’s make good use of funds, job opportunities, and resources that we have.
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