Government to use sh600 million to buy livestock from Mandera pastoralists

Pastoralists water their animals at a borehole in Takaba, Mandera County. A ravaging drought has left most local livestock keepers vulnerable without pastures and water. [PHOTO: MURIMI MWANGI/STANDARD]

The government will use Sh600 million through the Kenya Meat Commission to buy animals from pastoralist communities in Mandera, National Assembly Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives committee chair Adan Mohamed Noor has said.

The Mandera North legislator urged residents to sell off some of their livestock that were starting to feel the effects of drought as the region experienced its worst drought in five years due to delayed rainfall.