Wednesday 3 August 2011

NAROK:THE RICHEST,DIRTIEST AND POOREST TOURIST TOWN IN KENYA!!!!

Statistics show that Narok town,located in the  north of Great Rift valley in the Narok county,is easily the town with the highest circulation of money per day in the entire Africa.To many this sounds like a myth but its not as the town boasts of lying in the richest county in Kenya.It is a tourist destination as the county hosts the 8th wonder of the world:the wildebeest migration from the Masai Mara national reserve to Tanzania.Wheat farming is a lucrative trade in the area,and that mixed with the area being a tourism hub,especially in this peak season,places the town way ahead of other towns in economic terms.But a close look at the life of the residents reveal a sad state of life which they live.The town has the worst possible drainage in the whole country,with large and open sewer drainage flowing all over.During the last rainy season,the town experienced serious flooding and a life was lost and it was not the first one,the open sewer drainage overflowed posing risk of spreading cholera to the residents and they pose so much dangers to the young children who play around the dusty town.the roads  are in such a pathetic state,this contributes to give our tourists a very negative picture of our country leave alone the thousand and one scandals from famine to corruption which they probably see on the foreign news channels in the comfort of their overseas homes,but when they come to Africa,especially to Narok,they experience the said claims first hand thus giving us a bad name.the town hosts a university college which offers courses on wildlife management,hotel industry management,and several tourism related diploma courses in a bid to try and boost the local community and take advantage of the well over a multi-million tourism industry,but it seems that the most common and most visible areas of attraction have been neglected:the roads,the drainage,the people who should be reaping from the resources aforementioned,over to you;the county council of Narok.