Residents from Bomachoge Borabu have been challenged to shift their focus from land and direct their energies and resources in educating their children.
Nazarene University, Kisii campus Director, Dr. Norah Nyamwamu challenged residents from the area to change their land-centred thinking, and invest in their children's education, since it is the only legacy they can give their children in the presence of diminishing land sizes in the region.
Speaking at Endereti COG Secondary School in Bomachoge Borabu constituency, Nyamwamu expressed fear that if area residents concentrated their focus on land ownership at the expense of their children's education, they will leave behind a trail of poor and uneducated sons and daughters as land will not be there to empower them economically.
“I heard someone make a joke that, land in Kisii has been over subdivided and the one remaining needs a knife to be subdivided equally among siblings. Then where are we heading to if we do not educate our children as an alternative to land, which has already been exhausted through subdivisions,” posed Nyamwamu.
She urged parents from the region to invest heavily in their children's education as a last resort, since diminishing land sizes in the can no longer sustain the increasing population.