Governors must account for funds under their care

Wajir North MP Ibrahim Saney. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

There is a devastating drought in northern Kenya counties, with over four million Kenyans staring at starvation. The hunger is humiliating with the dry spell being the worst in the last 40 years.

Amid the dire situation, it is unkind and insensitive for costly walls to be built around hospitals in my home county of Wajir. The health facilities can hardly care for patients or even dispense over-the counter drugs, but someone is comfortable sinking money into such structures as residents face drought.