Peasant farmer attends police vetting to learn profitable farming

Police constable Anthony Mwangi Mututoh of Bomet Traffic Base during police vetting in Nakuru on August 29,2016.PHOTO:KIPSANG JOSEPH

The Peasant Farmer was in school this past week. No sooner had the duly elected President of our sovereign and democratic republic of Kenya signed into law a bill lowering interest rates on bank loans than I hurried to seek for a loan from the local bank to purchase another acre.

Shock on me though, because when my account was consulted, I was found to be only worth mashilingi taslimu ya Kenya in the hundreds! I could not qualify for a loan because I was a risky customer, the 8-4-4 manager told me! He continued that my account should be in the millions like that of police officers. He wondered aloud whether I am a real farmer or just a bandia kitchen garden man! Wakulima wenzako are depositing maelfu na maelfu every day and you are only at 50 and 100 bob?