By Mark Anthony
It’s over two years now since Riat Sugar Company begun its
operations in Ndhiwa district, trucking large bails of sugar cane from various
corners of this County. With all this good things, it has been realized a
number of adults and even young ones do risk their lives on a daily routine as
they pluck cane from the fast rolling trailers.
Speaking the Ndhiwa Citizen Voices at Ongaro chief’s camp,
Chief Joseph Wawa of North Kanyikela location informed NCV that a number of
injuries in the region had been realized from both adults and the children. “On
the 31st October 2013, a child aged 12 years lost his eyes in Unga
sub-location when one of the angry truck drivers pulled by the road side and struck
him with cane for pulling cane from the truck,” he narrated.
The chief was quick to add “a number of our people here
suffer due to ignorance. They have been blinded by the sweetness of cane hence
the young ones’ too emulate it from them. In Kiswahili we say ‘wanaambukizana
ujinga’”.
The best way to recovery of such inculpated vices in the community
has to begin with the adults otherwise generation after generation will follow
the foot prints of the formers.
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