Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Mbita Town.
Residents of Suba region, especially those living in Gwassi and Mbita districts in Homa-Bay County should invent new methods of making animals feed using the fish by-products, which are found in abundance in the area.
This is one way of reducing poverty index which is the highest in the entire Homa-Bay County. Such projects would also contribute immensely towards the eradication of poverty and creation of new jobs for the youths.
These remarks were made at the weekend by Hilary Ochieng’ Alila, a Nairobi based businessman who is also the coordinator of the ODM youths in Luo-Nyanza.
He said akot of fish by-products goes to wasteinstead of eing utikize for the economic gains of the residents.
Alila was speaking during a successful fund drive for Powo SDA Church in Kaksingiri Sindo in Gwassi district where a total of Kshs 175,000 was realized. The money will be utilized in the development an construction of the Powo SDA Church.
He told the congregation that fish by-products such as residues of fillets from the much prized Nile perch and omena {ndaga} could be converted into nutritious animal feeds. This could necessitate the establishment of various animals’ feeds processing plants along the lowland laying location bordering the shorelines of Lake Victoria instead of exporting such raw materials to big towns like Nakuru and Naiobi, Kisumu or Eldoret for the same purpose.
He said Homa-Bay County could strike it rich if all its natural resources, which include minerals and scenery for tourists attractions could be taped and put to a proper use. And this could also generate wealth and reduce the poverty index considerably.
Alila was accompanied by the former MP for Gwassi Hon Felix Nyauchi and a large number of ODM youth leaders from Karachuonyo, Kasipul-Kabondo, Rangwe, Mbita, Gwassi and Ndhiwa constituencies.
He urged the youths who have attained the ages of 18 to take the national identity cards to enable them to register as voters. By doing so you will make our beloved party leader Raila Amolo Odinga realizes his presidential ambition in the year 2012. Many youth in the region have not take up their national identity card, which is an important component of securing voting cards when the registration of voters commences.
He said the ODM is confidence of winning the next general election and forming the next government on its own and not amorphous coalition.
He told the youth to work hard by assisting their parents cultivate land for the planting of cash minting crops like cotton, and to avoid the bad habit of roaming while spreading deadly rumors against the elected leaders. “Hard work is the key not to success and not the empty political slogans and gossips,” he added.
Alila who has already declared his interests in the Homa-Bay County Senate seat hail from Rapedhi area of Ndhiwa district and is the second son of the prominent teachers and long-serving KNUT branch executive Secretary for the old lager South Nyanza district branch. His father the late Nelson Onyango Alila was also a sports personality having served in the Southern Nyanza KFF and at one time a fine footballer.
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