Turning stubborn water hyacinth into charcoal briquettes

Water hyacinth. [Ayoki Onyango, Standard]

Lawrence Kipruto runs a bar and a restaurant in Milimani, Kisumu County.

He uses wood charcoal to cook food and roast chicken and meat for his customers. But wood charcoal is expensive in Kisumu due to lack of wood and trees for charcoal burning besides the ban on logging by the government.