Wangari Njuguna and Monica Kagia @PeopleDailyKe
Heavy rains that have been pounding the country in the past week continue to wreak havoc with landslides in Murang’a county leaving scores homeless and acres of farms destroyed. Though no casualties were reported, more than 400 tea bushes were swept away in two separate incidents in Mukuria and Rwathe villages in Kigumo.
The rainstorms also uprooted trees that fell on houses in a different village in Heho, rendering more people homeless even as many compounds developed fault lines that have caused houses to crack.
According to the county director of meteorology, Paul Murage, the landslides occurred following heavy rains that pounded the area on Saturday and Sunday nights, advising locals to relocate to safer grounds to avert loss of lives.
“Kangema, Mathioya, Kahuro Kigumo sub-counties, are at high risk of getting more landslides especially during the first half of May and people are urged to be on the look out to avoid loss of lives,” he added.
“Tuthu area in Kangema sub-county has received the highest rainfall in the county with daily measurements soaring up to 79.3 milimetres,” he said. “Kangema, Mathioya, Kahuro Kigumo sub-counties, are at high risk of getting more landslides especially during the first half of May and people are urged to be on the look out to avoid loss of lives,” he added.
Elsewhere, a section of Nyali Centre in Mombasa collapsed yesterday morning paralysing business in the six-storey building. Mombasa County secretary Francis Thoya ordered for the closure of the entire southern wing of the busy centre until it was given a clean bill by county engineers.
“We cannot allow members of the public to just walk in and out of this building anymore and that is why I have ordered that the entire southern part remains closed until a report is tabled by the county engineers assuring us that we are safe,” he said.
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