Counties seek State food aid as drought bites

Meru Deputy Governor Titus Ntuchiu (centre) speaks to a contractor when he inspected ongoing Meru town paving project. [Phares Mutembei/Standard]

Leaders from Meru and Tharaka Nithi counties want the Government to increase relief food supplies to residents of Igembe, Tigania and Tharaka.

The leaders, speaking during the burial of Peter Linturi, the father of Meru Senator Mithika Linturi on Tuesday, said there was a perception that Meru is fertile and never suffers drought.