I get millions from waste fish skin

Newton Owino displays some of leather made from the fish skin at his work station in Kisumu county. PIC BY COLLINS ODUOR

Three years ago, Newton Owino approached fish processing plants in Lake Victoria with a ‘strange’ request. He wanted to buy nile-perch skin.

Considered waste and a disposal nightmare for the plants, the owners were glad to be rid of the skins and they offered these to Owino for free.