A civic leader in Lamu county has decried the level of food insecurity in the area and urged indigenous residents to embrace agriculture.

 

Councilor Zarah Shee told Lamu people to shed off their laziness, stop feeling jealous of hard working communities from outside the county by engaging in farming. She told them to seek government assistance in form of agricultural inputs and seeds rather than sitting and depending on relief food as a way of ensuring food security for their communities

 

Ms. Shee who was speaking at Kibaki grounds in Lamu island during this year's Jamhuri day celebrations said blaming hard working communities for their owes and calling for their extradition will not help increase their food. She urged them to live in peace and harmony with other communities cautioning them against being incited by disgruntled elements.

She said some politicians live in Mombasa and other cities and only appear in Lamu during election campaigns and urged the Lamu residents to elect people who have the feel of what is on the ground and therefore have the community interests at heart.

The councilor urged the people of Lamu to embrace the Lamu Port project adding that it is an old project that had been conceived even before independence cautioning those that are opposed to the project that they will be surpassed by time whether they are ready or not.

" Change or change will change you." Said councilor Shee.

The councilor also urged all leaders in the county to be on the frontline in assisting the district commissioner and the security forces to fight insecurity and drug trade adding that the fight cannot be won by security forces on their own.

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