Kenya's failed dreams of setting up an 'opium empire'

Colonel Ewart Grogan was one of the pioneer colonial settlers who benefitted from the skewed government land allocation sanctioned by the Colonies Office in London. [File, Standard]

Kenyans have gone gaga that a presidential candidate has grand plans of transforming the country into a billion-dollar drug empire that could challenge the opium fields of Colombia and Afghanistan.

Since he was cleared to contest the presidency, George Wajackoyah of the Roots party has created waves with his promises of establishing commercial farming of bhangi whose final product he proposes to sell and pay off the Chinese debts.