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Kisii Governor James Ongwae (right) hands over an Elephant Soapstone Carving to Ministry of Petroleum and Mining PS John Morangi Omenge as his Cabinet Secretary John Munyes (left) looks on after stakeholders’ meeting in Kisii County. (Standard)
The Government has announced plans to put up a soapstone value addition centre to benefit local stone miners in South Mugirango.
For more than 50 years, middlemen have been capitalising on the lack of a proper market and poor mining technology locally.
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