A Kenyan soldier from the Rapid Deployment Unit, an emergency response unit who were deployed due to reoccurring clashes and killings between Turkana and Dhaasanac communities, looks at a cow which is dying from hunger, a few hundred meters from the official boundary of the Kenya-Ethiopia border in northwestern Kenya October 13, 2013.
More than 2,000 families in Kikuyu, Kiambu County are in dire need of relief food as a result of the ongoing drought in the country.
The families in Nachu village have been receiving relief food from the County Government of Kiambu for the last three months, but due to the prolonged drought, and the delay of the much awaited rains, the county has restructured its resources distribution to cater for the growing population leading to a smaller ration to the affected families.
Kiambu County Chief of Staff, Samuel Oduol, speaking on Monday, March 13 during an event to give the families relief food, said that the county government has the mandate to distribute food to all hunger-stricken families in the county, but currently they are overwhelmed.
“The Ministry of Agriculture is doing a research to come up with new farming methods, which will help our people to produce agricultural yields throughout the year without depending on rainfall,” said Oduol.