Kakamega; No Kuku and Deads' taxes at your home.

 Stop misinterpreting the law, Oparanya says

Some of the graduating students

Kakamega governor, Wycliffe Oparanya has warned the “enemies of development” against feeding the public with wrong information.

Controversy began on the taxes bill which the residents say that it was too oppressive.

The governor has however come out to state that all the people have is propaganda and not what is entailed in the bill.

“The law states that one will pay ksh. 20 on any chicken that they sell, and not the ones at their homes”, he said.

Speaking through a representative attending a graduation ceremony at Bukura Agricultural College in Kakamega early this month, Oparanya said that the few who wanted to confuse residents have no place in the county.

“There is no one who will pay five thousand shillings to bury the dead at their homes”, he added.

According to the representative, the law states that the money is only paid by those who want to bury their dead at the cemeteries.

The law brought a lot of controversy last month, when it was said that all residents will pay a ksh. 20 tax for every chicken at their place and ksh.5000 to bury the dead.

A school worker milking cows using a machine

On the other hand, he gave praises to the Bukura Agricultural College for offering quality skills pertaining agriculture. He added that jobs were really available in the county and all the graduates from the college will be assimilated into the job market.

 “We have a fish farming project in the county, it is you people who will implement that project”, he said in a statement addressing the graduates.

However, Oparanya has wars with the college’s surrounding community for failing to make use of the college.

He said that most students in the college are from faraway places, and this renders the college useless to the area residents.

Others present in the ceremony were area MP and the chief.