Prof. Wajackoyah to introduce snake farming if elected president

Roots Party presidential candidate Prof. George Wajackoyah has revealed another avenue his administration intends to capitalise on in order to better Kenya's economy, should he win the presidential race in August.

Wajackoyah, who has been vocal on legalising marijuana and commercializing the drug for medicinal purposes, now says that Kenya can also cash in on the lucrative anti-venom market by farming poisonous snakes and extracting toxins from them that will enable the country to locally manufacture antidotes for export.

According to Wajackoyah, there is a ready market for anti-venom globally and once Kenya maximises on the profitable trade it will be able to gradually pay off its burgeoning debt. 

"We will introduce snake farming so that we can actually extract snake poison for purposes of medication. A lot of people are bitten by snakes in this country and we have to wait for snake doses from outside the country from pharmaceutical organistaions," the exuberant presidential candidate said on Citizen TV’s JKLive show on Wednesday.

Wajackoyah likewise highlighted that snake meat is also a delicacy in some nations, as such Kenya can invest in anti-venom production and concurrently sell snake meat abroad to widen its revenue generating schemes. 

"We have so many snakes in this country and we have so many snake eaters. One of the ways we are going to offset debt is by taking these snakes, extracting poison from them and manufacturing them into anti-venom and shipping the reptiles to other countries where they are consumed," said Wajackoyah. 

Marijuana and commercial snake farming, coupled with incentives that will boost the country's available economic infrastructure, Wajackoyah added, will be the first thing his administration will set out to achieve after the polls. 

Wajackoyah has in the past stated that he is prepared to counter perceived resistance that his unique proposals would evoke among some of the country’s residents.