Voices from Budalangi on the never ending floods

A flooded home in Musoma area of Budalangi Sub County and Busia County on 19th June, 2016. bUDALANGI RESIDENTS want officials to step in and offer permanent solutions, such as putting up dikes, and save them from their annual heartache. (PHOTO: NANJINIA WAMUSWA/ STANDARD)

At 3am on April 29, Francisca Akello was woken from her sleep by loud voices urging everyone to immediately leave their homes for higher grounds. Floods had come.

“The floods’ arrival was not a surprise. For several weeks, River Nzoia had been swelling and area administrators, among them chiefs and sub-chiefs, had warned us to be alert,” she said.