State should begin to bail out victims of floods and mudslides

Residents on rubble and mud at Chesegon area where the trading centre was buried under rubble after a mudslide. [Kevin Tunoi]

The plethora of crises facing Kenya, from desert locusts to the coronavirus pandemic and now mudslides and floods, can be overwhelming. Yet it is during such times that the government’s worth becomes manifest to its citizens.

Kenyans had hardly come to grips with the ravages of desert locusts in most parts of the country than coronavirus took them by storm. The negative effects of the pandemic are unquantifiable, and only time will tell just how bad things will be. Pleas for State interventions in different facets of our lives are reaching a crescendo, and it must act. But just as the government is immersed in finding ways of mitigating the effects of the virus, rains are causing untold damage in Marakwet, Narok, Garissa, Mandera, Elburgon, Nakuru, Naivasha and Kisumu, among other areas.