Red Cross delivers relief food to deadly Suguta Valley residents

The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) on Thursday, February 23 visited over 2,000 families at the foot of Suguta Valley who have been majorly affected by the ongoing drought in the country.

Residents of Kamuge, Napeitom and Lomelo villages live in fear since bandits have made the places inaccessible which also affected the routine planned by KRCS to deliver relief food and medical services.

KRCS, being the only humanitarian organization to have reached the area, has supplied three trucks of oil, flour and green grams distributed to every household that should last them for weeks before more help comes their way.

Wilson Lokuruka, Kamuge location chief, said that people from the area have survived on wild fruits known as “Mkoma”.

Turkana county has registered 10,000 livestock deaths ranking the county as the worst affected in the past one month.

However, while the national government was working towards delivering relief food in Baringo North, armed bandits attacked a National Youth Service (NYS) lorry ferrying the donations to displaced persons in the area.

It is reported that the bandits forced the driver of the lorry to offload the contents. This comes a day after two men were shot dead by suspected Pokot bandits.

Written by Ann Mukuru