Anxiety grips over 800 villagers gold mining activities

Pamela Were and Samuel Mukuna, residents of Esitsimi Munungo village in Mwibona ward in Luanda constituency are opposed to gold mining activities by Shanta Gold Limited, a gold mining company [Nathan Ochunge, Standard]

For generations, families had tilled the fertile soil, tended to their livestock, and built a tight-knit society where everyone knew each other's names.

But life in Esitsimi Munungo village in Mwibona, Vihiga, might never be the same. At least 800 people are living with anxiety amid talk that they could be relocated to pave the way for gold mining.