THE VILIFIED HERO OF PORT VICTORIA {UNFOLDING SERIES}

It’s an unnatural phenomenon, even a rarity that a living creature would
defy the checks and balances of nature where survival is for the
fittest and in a case of over refinement even the strongest are sent to
the gutter, the Nile perch of the Nile is one such rarities. Even the
probing hands of the scavenging fishmongers that codon the shores of the
lake is just but a pinch of salt compared to the fish of prays rate of
breeding and the ragging havoc it continues to bear on the biodiversity
of the other fish species. So stories are told of the gone by days when
various fish delicacies adorned the palate of many a fishing communities
around the lake but not anymore. However not for long, salvation it
seems has come from a very unlikely of quarters, the learned brothers
and the unlearned are all lumped in a bowl of ignorance. What’s more,
the uninvited and unwelcomed guest seems to stomach a grand solution for
even problems that has caught the East African Community agape all this
while.
The academic circles have termed it the arsenal that will slay the great
lake to its death bed. When it comes to the water hyacinth in Lake
Victoria, saying that the Nile perch has no natural enemy is an
understatement, at least it is food to countless including you and I, we
just need to step our game up. The sea weed literally roams the east
African boundaries at leisure and pleasure. Today when you visit the
lake and you are able to see the water you probably woke on the right
side of your bed. The government and the fishermen curse the sea weed in
one breath; navigation in the lake is no longer a stroll in the park,
lest you be held captive by the pirates not even keen on a negotiation.
But perhaps we are perceiving the Lake Victoria problem with our minds
so tucked in our stomachs that we are oblivious of the obvious goodies
that the raging weed come with. As we continue to curse and persecute
the water hyacinth, the prophetic wise men of our age are already
spinning ropes of.........
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