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A Blue-print to Resuscitating Galana Kulalu Project V2.0

In 2013-2015, goverment through the ministry of agriculture, devolution as well as National Irrigation Board (NIB) came up with an agressive plan to enhance Kenya's food security through the Galana Kulalu flagship project. The whole idea was to reclaim over 50,000 acres of land that was within the arid and semi arid region through irrigation and used to produce maize and other crops enough to supplement the nations food production. The project was a guaranteed key to food security. So apparently, the government came up with a plan, infact an awesome plan. The plan was to contract experts with experience and first hand experience at converting 'deserts' to 'vine yards'. We all know that no one is better at this than the Israeli.  So an Israeli company called Green Arava was contracted for the task. FYI the said company have done several other similar projects in various parts of the world with 100% success rate. However, the company was supposed to operat...