Who will save the poor of Central Province........
A mud walled tin-roof thatched house in Githumu, Gicici area. Efforts need to be made to improve the lives of people living in such houses. There is an untold story in central province. The story is lost largely due to statistical figures that claim that living standards are very high. What with the coffee, tea and food sufficiency stories that say relax, Central Kenya is better than the rest of country. There can be nothing further from the truth than this. I have just returned from a journey I dubbed “Tracing the roots of my fathers” in which I went to Githumu market in Kandara Division of Muranga County. I witnessed firsthand how the first quartile of the population in the area is reeling under the immense weight of poverty. For them, only God knows what next and this will not be said because it is not part of the statistical mean. Like any other poor place in Kenya, a good number of the residents live in mud walled tin-roof covered houses that I am reli...