Proposed County Status

SUGGESTIONS OSIEKO - YIMBO COUNTY For many...many years, we've heard senior community members (Community elders and professionals) discussing about boundary demarcations and the decentralization in the region. Listening to them, their goal is usually to get more resources trickling down to the community. Meaning: efficient and effective utilization of resources e g. revenue, natural resources, human capital etc. As we are already aware, Osieko lies on the peripheries of Busia and Siaya counties. Combined together, these two counties have huge tracts of land and humongous quantities of natural resources. To spur development and to better the living standards in these Communities, there needs to be more devolution, more decentralization and the optimal/ maximum utilization of the regions resources. Getting a county status means institutional upgrades, better schools, elevation of hospitals, a fisheries or marine science university, a stadia, fish factory, a dam, good access roads...