Money is a facilitator of everything whether evil or holy. It is also widely believed that money is evil but its lack does not make you holy.
Such conflicting facts about money are also being experienced in the great Nakuru County. As you sojourn the outskirts of the clean urban center, you will meet numerous trucks loaded with sand.
They are from a spring of money in areas like Ng'ambo. This is a strategic material in the development of the county and the country at large.
However, its exploitation possess a hazard to the brave young men as well as our environment. Every morning young men wake up and head to the quarries to harvest sand.
Some of them are deep down the ground ten times the normal grave depth. Above them is the loose sand with the ability to fulfill their dreams or take lives with ease. Additionally, land fertility has diminished to wanting levels. Between the quarries, there is the strategic Njoro River. It is one of the most reliable feeders of Lake Nakuru.
This issue of sand harvesting must be resolved.