Writes Leo Odera Omolo.

The Rangwe Parliamentary seat has attracted yet another high profile aspirant with the vision to turn around the otherwise sleeping rural electoral constituency.

Rangwe constituency is located with the Homa-Bay district in Homa-Bay county and the new entrant into the race Eng.Joseph Mboya Nyamuthe, a youthful business tycoon with the highest profile is expected to give the other aspirants the run for their money.

PHOTO OF ENG. JOSEPH MBOYA NYAMUTHE.

Already the 41 year Uganda and Cameroun educated civil engineer has already established a plant that is processing sweet potatoes at Ndiru in Kagan Location, and he is the process of establishing a cassava processing factory in Gem Location within Rangwe constituency. All these plants meant automatic creation of jobs for the youths.

Nyamuthe is the son of a prominent former journalist the late Peter Nyamuthe who worked with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in different capacities for many years. He hail from Central Gem .

Born in 1970, Nyamuthe took his early education in Nairobi before moving o the neighboring Uganda where h completed his “A” level studies and move on to Younde Cameroun where studied civil engineering course.

He has since established his own engineering firm called Global RTE Kenya Ltd and another business flagship called JB Construction Ltd, all located in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

The incumbent Rangwe MP is Martin Otieno Ogindo who has since switched himself from defending his seat in Parliament and declared that he would contest for the position of the Homa-Bay County governor,

Nyamuthe said his vision is to turn the agriculturally rich constituency into a bastion of food grains as part of the concerted effort to support the government food security program.”We are going to explore every part of the constituency sample the soil and find out which crops if suitable for which place.

“Cotton is one of the greatest assets in the area, though it production has been dwindling for some years now.” Said Nyamuthe.

Other food crops which could be turned into money minting crops include sweet potatoes, pineapples, groundnut, cassava, maize and sorghum which is said to be popular with breweries companies as well as those firm which are distilling ethanol for fuel.

The constituency has the shortest shoreline in Lake Victoria, but fishing and fish trade is thriving and he would encourage those trade as well as promoting tourism to the pre-historic sites, and also to the nearby Ruma National Game Park, which is, though, administratively in Mbita district, and is located only 23 kilometers from Homa-Bay Town.

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