Over 1000 people in dire need of food in Baringo North: MCAs

Over 1000 people including pupils are in dire need of food in the drought stricken Baringo North.

MCAs led by Majority Chief Whip Reuben Chepsongol have urged the government to urgently distribute food.

“The Government should not see hunger in Baringo as lies but seek to save lives and avoid extra deaths,” Chepsongol said.

He further claimed that some communities from Baringo North had been left out in the food distribution program and called for impartiality.

Their sentiment comes barely a day after 75-year-old man succumbed to hunger pangs in Barketiew village, Saimo Kipsaraman ward.

The number of those who have died now stands at 21.