President William Ruto has pledged to expand the Galana Kulalu irrigation project to up to 20,000 acres in 2023 and then to 200,000 acres in the following four years.
Through his Twitter account, President Ruto noted that the first 500-acre trial crop in Galana Kulalu was a great success and his government is seeking to keep expanding the project. The president says that his government is seeking to eliminate ‘the shame of hunger’ from Kenya through the Galana Kulalu project.
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Ruto’s government is rolling out the multi-million project in phases expected to continue for the coming four years. The president has partnered with stakeholders in the private sector to ensure the success of the project. In his January tour of Galana Kulalu, President Ruto canceled the project’s indented partition into settlement plans. The president added that the government would build a dam to put an additional 350,000 acres under cultivation.
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The government started the Galana Kulalu Food Security Project seven years ago, but the project slowed down after a while. President William Ruto asserted that shady figures in the Ministry of Lands divided land to create a settlement program, sabotaging the project, which had been lauded as the solution to Kenya’s food insecurity, during the previous Uhuru-led administration.
