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Innovative Kisumu entrepreneur turns discarded fish waste into useful products for local and export market

Newton Owino spotting a fish leather jacket and glove inside his showroom in Kajulu, Kisumu City. [Joe Ombuor: Standard]

A modern lady’s dressing is not complete without fancy earrings and necklaces to enhance the desired looks. Now, this will stagger you. The attractive earrings you are ogling could as well be lifeless eyes of fish and the necklace nothing but the tail or head of the same aquatic creature, minus the brain tissue.

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