THE STANDARD By
Irungu Houghton |
February 13th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Residents of Kibos in Kisumu County salvage their properties after their houses were demolished by the Kenya Railways. [Collins Oduor, Standard]
One week ago, 3,500 men, women and children were forcefully evicted from a settlement they had lived in for 83 years. The evictions are part of an ongoing programme by the Kenya Railways Corporation and other state agencies to expand national railway, water, sewage and road networks. The devastation must leave us wondering. Is there not an alternative that does not have homes, hustles and hopes flattened as Kenya upgrades infrastructure?
Kibos lies between Kisumu East and Muhoroni sub-counties. One of Kisumu County’s four sugar factories can be found here. Kibos is one of the homes of the many railway communities across the nation. Several books, podcasts and films could be written about the Nubians of Kibos.
The Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive, Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, has said the Assembly’s COVID-19 taskforce would soon begin sanctioning parents of school children without nose masks.
She, therefore, advised parents to provide their children with nose masks and hand sanitisers to protect them against COVID-19.
Addressing a section of the press in Sunyani, Madam Owusu-Banahene, who is also the Bono Regional Minister-designate, said the Assembly would deploy its 52-member COVID-19 taskforce to patrol and enforce the protocols in the Municipality.
The taskforce is made up of personnel of the Military, Police, Prisons Service, Ghana National Fire Service and Immigration Service.
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