from Judy Miriga

Folks,

The attached is just a tip of an iceburg, which explains why PM Raila should face charges against crime and violations of Human Rights, including creating atmosphere of excessive poverty, hopelessnes and sufferings to people living in and around Lake Victoria, Migingo and Ugingo, notably the on the people of Luo Nyanza in Yala Swamp and Kano in Ahero, where Local Community land was forcefully taken away from these poor community in the Luo Nyanza. The reason why PM Raila and Kibaki must be investigated and taken to Hague to answer charges. PM Raila and family cheated the Greater Luo Community rich and poor, to donate money for Mollasses, which was thought was the Luo Community Cooperative venture, but it later became personal and family property of the Odingas. This from ongoing activities, is seen as Raila’s smart way to reduce the whole of people of Luo Nyanza as SLAVES to be used as Labour Resorvour to Dominion Investments, Specter and Mollasses, and altogether to serve other prospective Foreign Investors through the same method of falsely taking away their community land by force.

PM Raila and family do not own land, the size they have posed out in the International Market at the World Bank, IMF or other United Nations organization and Foreign Investors for which they solicited for funds. Who is going to pay the Debt that has been incurred by these politicians for their private businesses….Can the world and ICC help the poor to unravel this conspiracy and put these Legislatures spot on…….???………How could Raila, Kibaki, Uhuru and Kalonzo sign for land they that are not their personal land and did not follow the Investment Regulation or policy…….putting the people into excessive poverty and suffering…..???

There is a conspiracy between PM Raila and Kibaki with others who are suspected to have used their political position to rob and criminally steal from the public, the people of Kenya, by floating public facilities, resources and taxpayer money for self motivated businesses or private interests. The National Debt thereof that has been since accrued, are not people’s Government debts but are corruptly made by these politically leaders. Such as these illegal activities has caused many to be killed, others were pushed to excessive poverty, homelessness, painful frustrations, mental torture, and others died. They are the reason why other small businesses were technically killed and were put out of business. They are the reason for excessive drug peddling and human trafficking including child pornograpy and the growing child sale.

Recently, Dominion Trading Company was seen to have maneuvred to outplace the TSC Offices for Siaya Teachers and very soon, Siaya teachers will not be able to perform and so children of Siaya will loose opportunity for education.

Because of poor planning, and because the Luo professionals and community were not involved and engaged in the original plan of their community land, this is treated as theft. Instead of reducing poverty, it has aggrivated poverty into excessive unbarable situation. This is to a point, families are becoming homeless without food or shelter, as their lands have been taken by Dominion and Spectre. The cost of food is too high and familys cannot afford to buy high cost of food controlled by Dominion and Spectre. People are being pushed out of Luo Nyanza and from their community land.

PM Raila, Dominion and Kibaki must be stopped urgently before they destroy the Luo people of Nyanza.

Enough is enough, they must be investigated and charged accordingly.

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

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Giant marsh farm that has Dominion over us

By EMMAN OMARI, Daily Nation

In the magical year 2030, Dominion in Siaya County will become an Agri City.

It will become the Punjab of Kenya as the net producer of rice and the city where everything will be found — farm produce, factories, hotels, a popular tourists’ destination plus every service you can imagine.

Rice, fish, bananas and sorghum are just a few of the crops to be found on the multi-billion shilling Dominion Farms land in the sprawling swamp on the Yala river, west of the county near where it pours into Lake Victoria.

And to the north is the upcoming irrigation canal on the Nzoia river that is set to turn more than 10,000 acres into an agri-business hub.

Conventional fishing on the many beaches of the lake will continue to generate income for the people and the county.

Yala swamp is a muddy black soil marshland turned into black gold whose impact is being felt in the whole of Kenya.

Its rice, sold under the brand name of Prime Harvest, is in every supermarket; its fingerlings are being sold to fish farmers throughout the country and Kisumu Molasses gets its sorghum from there.
The Sh2.5 billion project, the work of Mr Calvin Burgess, the CEO from Oklahoma, US has turned wasteland into productive land that is feeding the country.

Sarah Achieng, aged 34, employed as a fish pond attendant, did not go far in school before she was married and began to have her five children.

“I get everything from Dominion, money to educate my children and help my relatives too,” she said.
Mr Philip Abir, a company director said: “Our objective is to become the biggest rice producer in Africa as we continue to reclaim the swamp.”

There is 3,500 acres under rice —harvested twice a year, effectively giving them 7,000 acres of the crop — plus 20 acres given to sorghum. That is out of 17,000 acres given to Dominion to farm.
When reclamation of the swamp is completed in the next 18 years, it will be a giant farmland agro-city comparable in size to Tharaka-Nithi County or the whole of Mombasa.

Dominion has been given a 25-year lease, of which seven years has already been taken.
“We are negotiating for more and hope that whatever good we are doing will be our strength to enable us get the extension,” Mr Abir said.

The company has also dug canals to take water to 200 acres given to Siaya residents and a further 45 acres for Bondo as part of the company’s community development programme.

“They can also plant their rice or other crops for their livelihood,” Mr Abir said. There are seven big fish ponds already and a total of 32 planned.

Last year, said Mr Abir, Dominion produced rice worth Sh337 million, more than a year’s budget of some of the smaller ministries.

Dominion has a milling plant with a capacity of 78 million kilos of rice a year.

Plant manager David Waweru said the entire country mills 45 million kilos a year, meaning that Dominion alone can mill rice for all the producers in Kenya.

The ponds produce 2.5 million fingerlings which supplement the Government’s efforts to promote fish farming.

According to Mr Abir, such numbers can replenish the fish stocks in lake Victoria.

And Mr Enos Were, the Aqua-Culture manager said: “Our fish with a small head has less bone and more meat and in 10 years we want to be the biggest producers of fish in the world.”

Fish is harvested from the ponds and sold both locally and as far as Kisumu and Nairobi. Sorghum for Kisumu Molasses is used in making alcohol.

Ms Ruth Adhiambo Odinga, director of Spectre International which runs Kisumu Molasses, explained the pilot sorghum project at Dominion is to produce seeds which will go to out growers who will in turn sell back to them.

“We want to change the lives of the people in the entire region by making them part of the firm by earning a living from it,” she said.

The sorghum stems will be used to make alcohol while other farmers will grow the crop for seeds and for food. Apart from well maintained roads, the farm has a 500-metre airstrip which is to be extended for bigger planes.

And Dominion is all the time rolling out new projects to help the community.

Hydro-power production is about to start from a waterfall 1,153 metres above sea level, built on a canal on the Yala river. It will light Dominion and sell the rest to the national grid.

A pressing machine is being installed to make diesel oil from the jatropha plant also grown on the farm. And the massive production of soya beans is in the offing.

The beans will be grown on 7,000 acres of the swamp for making fish feed both for the farm and to be sold on commercially.

Mr Abir said that will offset the monthly cost of Sh2 million for importing the feed from Uganda.

Already, a fish feed milling plant has been installed with a capacity to produce 30,000.

By EMMAN OMARI, Daily Nation

Ruth Odinga, Director, Spectre International Ltd

Spectre International is a team effort by Kenyan and Canadian investors, to revive an industrial plant that politics had made idlefor twenty years. Our aim is two-fold, to do profitable business and to contribute to Kisumu’s development. We are very pleased with our progress over the past three years and would like to see other investors join us in Kisumu

Corporate News

Agro Chemical opens new battlefront with Spectre

When Spectre International pulled the plug on its sole rival, Agro Chemical and Food Company, by introducing the extra neutral alcohol in its production line after Canadian investors took over in 2005, it was presumed they had won the battle for supremacy.

However, recent developments in both the local and global energy industry that have spurred intense interest on renewable energy appear to be reigniting the rivalry.

The Muhoroni-based Agro Chemical and Food Company achieved a sales turnover of over Sh1 billion this year and announced plans to commission a new extra neutral alcohol plant at its premises at a cost of about Sh700 million.

The firm said the new plant will be ready by the end of this year.

Speaking to Business Daily, board Chairman William Kirwa noted that the decision to start manufacturing extra neutral alcohol (ENA) would enhance the company’s competitiveness locally and beyond the borders.

“This will not only add value to our products but also improve our competitiveness in the local, regional and international market.”

The firm is also opening another battlefront with its Kisumu-based rival by venturing into sweet sorghum production to supplement its main raw material molasses as it seeks scale up the production of ethanol to meet the regional demand.

Spectre International took to sweet sorghum production mid last year as supply of molasses from the surrounding sugar millers dwindled.

The entry into sweet sorghum production by state corporation, ACFC signals a new battlefront for out growers in the region who will be expected to supply feedstock to run the firms.

“We are now involved in the research and development of an alternative feedstock to sustain our production,” said ACFC managing director, Mr O. P. Naran.

Already, Spectre is in talks with Kibos Outgrowers and the Siaya-based Dominion Farms to supply it with the grain, but the director in charge of procurement and administration, Mr Israel Agina, has in the past stated that the intention was to eventually increase the acreage under the crop to 8,000 acres to adequately supplement molasses.

But the main battle front appears to be opening in the ENA production which has been hitherto a preserve of Spectre.

ACFC, owned collectively by the government and business giant Mehta Group, has moved in with the Sh700 million investment to start producing ENA, said Mr Naran.

The company aims to produce 50,000 litres per day, an amount that is 10,000 litres less than the capacity of Spectre.

“Once operational, we will be one of the alcohol plants producing the purest spirits and we promise our customers a quality comparable to none in the region,” said Mr Naran.

Other product areas where the two firms have locked horns include methylated and rectified spirits, and baker’s yeast.

In total, the two firms control the entire Eastern, Central and Southern African markets in countries including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, DRC and Southern Sudan.
ENA is used in the manufacture and blending of alcoholic beverages, while methylated spirit is used as an antiseptic and for manufacture of skincare products.

However, ACFC is pleading with the government to write off it’s over Sh6 billion debt as it clears those owed by sugar millers to give it the competitive edge it requires.

It is also asking the government to enact a law that would revive production of power alcohol which failed due to what Mr Naran blames on “non-co-operation of multi-national oil companies” in the 1980’s.
The renewed competition could be a boon to the struggling energy sector long strained by the high oil and power prices. Ethanol production through fermentation can utilize a variety of feedstock including sugar, starch and biomass.
The feedstock available locally with the three contents includes molasses, cassava, potato, sweet sorghum, sugar cane juice and sugar beet.