14,000 displaced persons in Nyandarua appeal for food aid

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By James Munyeki

More than 14,000 IDPs camping at Mawingu in Nyandarua Central District face starvation.

This is after the Government failed to supply them with relief food for the past two months.

The chairman of the post-election violence victims in the area Mr Peter Kariuki said their last relief supply was early last month.

Speaking to The Standard in Nyahururu town, Kariuki said their efforts to get more food from the Ministry of Special Programmes and the Red Cross had failed to materialise.

"We have been in touch with the ministry but nothing has been done," he said.

He appealed to other organisations and well wishers to come to their rescue.

Kariuki said children and the elderly were the most affected.

He said they had only been supplied with yellow maize and lacked proteins and vitamins rich food.

"The elderly and children have been malnourished due to lack of proper diet. They rely on the yellow maize and porridge," he said.