We Have Increased Milk Prices, We’ll Ensure The Prices Go Up- DP Gachagua

“We have increased milk prices and now it is Sh50 per litre. We will ensure the prices go up from here,” DP Gachagua.

Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has announced that the Government will beef up security in Transmara for the region to prosper and benefit from the development policies of the Kenya Kwanza administration.

Speaking on Sunday at OlMotonyi Primary School in Lolgorian, Kilgoris Narok County during an Interdenominational Church Service and fundraiser for 21 churches, the Deputy President said security was crucial in every part of the country promising residents of the Government’s readiness to ensure their safety.

“We will provide more vehicles to the officers as requested by the leaders here because it is important to ensure officers respond faster to cases of insecurity,” Gachagua stated.

The DP noted that the Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki would sit down with area leaders to find long lasting solutions to insecurity issues in the area.

He mentioned the Government is procuring milk coolers for every ward in Narok for value addition so that dairy farmers can earn more from their milk.

“We have increased milk prices and now it is Sh50 per litre. We will ensure the prices go up from here. We are also building a leather factory where farmers will supply skins and fetch better prices,” said the DP adding that they will not relent to push reforms in the dairy sector.

Mr Gachagua added that farmers in Narok have also benefited from subsidized fertilisers distributed by the government saying they will continue with the subsidy programme in a bid to reduce the cost of production for more produce and higher earnings.

The DP assured that the government will continue conserving the Mau forest dismissing critics who have accused the administration of failing to do so.

“Before elections, the President was accused by his detractors of not being interested in conservation of Mau Forest but he appointed Environment and Climate Change Cabinet Secretary Soipan Tuya from Narok and she has been doing an exemplary job in the conservation of the forest and others in the country,” he remarked.

The Deputy President also defended the Government’s planned deployment of police officers on a peace-keeping mission in Haiti saying their professionalism had been recognised globally.

“We are deploying our police force because our forces have been recognised as a professional force which will help the people of Haiti.The United Nations Security Council has identified our forces as ideal for the peace-keeping mission in Haiti and we will send 1000 police officers who will be fully resourced and funded by the United Nations,” the DP stated.