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Linturi dashes compensation hopes for flood-affected farmers

Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi answers questions before a Senate Plenary at Senate chambers in Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi has dismissed any possibility of providing financial compensation to farmers whose crops were destroyed in the recent flash floods.

According to Linturi, his ministry cannot allocate funds to assist affected farmers without a specific budgetary provision.

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