State at a loss as floods wash away costly infrastructure

Rongai residents witnessing the bodys of the five victims being recovered at river Kandisi where flash floods swept them on 4th May 2018 in Kajiado county. [Edward Kiplimo,Standard]

The ongoing rains have wiped out resources worth billions of shillings.

So grave is the damage that the Government has set aside Sh60 billion to combat floods, enough to build two modern roads such as Thika Super-Highway and another one of the same scale as the new Outering Road in Nairobi.