Vihiga residents are angry with the county government for proposing to sell them a fertiliser made from their own faeces, and instead, want it for free or to keep it in their toilets.
In 2020, the county government commissioned a project to produce cheap fertiliser from human waste to protect farmers from high artificial fertiliser prices. The county intends to sell fertiliser to farmers for between Sh300 and Sh500 from a Sh17 million decentralised wastewater treatment plant on the outskirts of Mbale town.