Kenya's failed dreams of setting up an 'opium empire'

Colonel Ewart Grogan was one of the pioneer colonial settlers who benefitted from the skewed government land allocation sanctioned by the Colonies Office in London. [File, Standard]

Kenyans have gone gaga that a presidential candidate has grand plans of transforming the country into a billion-dollar drug empire that could challenge the opium fields of Colombia and Afghanistan.

Since he was cleared to contest the presidency, George Wajackoyah...