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Flooding highlights our poor level of disaster preparedness

While Governors and county executive officers were attending the 5th Annual Governor’s Conference in Kakamega last week, rains continued to pond most parts of the country with an unrelenting ferocity, wreaking more havoc.

Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa and Garissa Town MP Aden Duale flew by helicopter to Garissa to witness the damage caused to the town after River Tana broke its banks and flooded the town immediately after the closure of the governors’ conference in Kakamega.

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