Commercial
sex workers from as far as Tarime District in the neighbouring Tanzania,
Mombasa, Kisumu, Kisii and Eldoret have landed in Awendo Town Migiri County
after being attracted by scent of the money in circulation and hoping to reap
from the growers’ sweat.
Investigations
reveal that sugarcane farmers in Migori County are painting the town red
following a Sh447 million pay-out by Sony Sugar Company.
The
growers from Rongo, Uriri, Awendo, Suna East, Suna West and Kuria West
constituencies are making merry in hotels and pubs as a result of the “boom”. Traders
have recorded roaring business in the past one week. Cane farmers are the ones
controlling the economy of Migori county.
Investigations
further reveal that some women have been bitterly complaining that their
husbands disappeared from home soon after they received payment from the sugar
miller.
But
not all farmers who have earned the sugarcane millions are falling for the
women’s devious schemes.
One
of the women from Tarime was quoted
saying “I crossed the border into Migori after reading in the press that the
farmers in this area had been paid millions of shillings.” The women largely
idle around popular nightclubs at night, where they wait for their loaded
clients.
The
Sh447 million was given to the Awendo-based miller by President Uhuru Kenyatta
during his recent visit to Migori County to offset debts owed to farmers for
their cane deliveries.
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