Kisumu residents resort to prayers to send away menacing water hyacinth

Members of Legio Maria pray by the hyacinth covered shore of Lake Victoria. (Photo: Denish Ochieng’/Standard)

With both the National and County Governments showing little efforts to deal with the water hyacinth menace in Lake Victoria, residents of Kisumu have now resorted to divine intervention to send away the weed.

The faithful from the Legion Maria church shocked residents when they camped at Dunga beach and prayed for the disappearance of the weed.