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The long-held view of sand as a lifeline for water-starved Ukambani residents is changing in many areas and taking the unpleasant shape of a curse, thanks to runaway greed fanned by junior administrative authorities, county officials, the police, brokers and politicians.
This God-given treasure that floods small and large river beds in the lower eastern Kenya region today enriches only a few. Blood, and not life-sustaining water, is what flows where the commodity has been scooped dry leaving barren rocks.
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