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Led\nby Princes Alemba, the residents questioned the move by the County government\nto invade into their farms without their knowledge or prior notice arguing that\nthey have been relying on the crops harvested from their farms for the past 20\nyears. “At this time of the corona pandemic, we are relying on the produce\nfrom our farms to sustain ourselves.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They\nclaim to have incurred losses following the incident and have now demanded the\nlocal government to reconsider its decision and give them food support\nespecially during this time of Corona pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Since\nour crops have been destroyed by officers sent from the county government. We\ndemand the county to supply us with food,” said John Muranda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\ncounty staff who destroyed the crops said they were acting on orders of the\nCounty Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “They have never given us fertilizer nor has\nseeds to plant, our efforts to enquire reason behind the destruction been\nfruitless. They claim that they had been sent.” He said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grazing\nof livestock around the town has also been banned while owners of buildings,\nwhich are in deplorable state, have also been asked to work on them or else\nthey will be demolished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCrops\ntaller than five feet high grown in Kakamega town should also be done away with\nbecause criminals will establish hideouts in them and begin terrorizing\ninnocent civilians.” Read a statement from the county Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nincident comes in the wake of demolition of illegal structures that had\nsprouted on road reserves across Kakamega town in a step to ease congestion and\nbring order within town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n —\nEnds —<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kakamega By Dennis Chagala Residents of Milimani area in the outskirts of Kakamega town are up in arms after the County Government of Kakamega hired \u2018goons\u2019 who invaded their farms and destroyed their crops by slashing them. They told County Splash News that they were surprised to find their maize, beans and bananas including groceries all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/horizonnews.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG-20200521-WA0051-1024x768.jpg\")
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