Each county has a unique flag that captures aspects of identity and what the counties stand for.
The maiden governors settled on symbols that best represented their counties.
Garissa chose to have the endangered Devil’s deer as the main notable symbol on the flag.
The danger of extinction made the county government have it on the flag as a show of support for conserving one of their best tourist attraction.
Besides the special deer, the seven lines were settled on to represent the seven sub-counties in Garissa County.
“Last night I have also launched the county flag. The law allows each county to have its own flag uniquely identified with them. Our flag has 7 lines of navy blue and yellow stripes. Each of the seven lines represents each of the seven sub-counties constituting Garissa county. On the left edge of the flag is a circular picture of Hirola also known as Hunter’s hartebeest or the Devil’s deer. It is a critically endangered antelope species found at Ishaqbini conservancy in Ijara Constituency,” said the then Governor Nathif Jama as reported by Flags Of The World (FOTW).
The animal has been around for over three million years.
“The hirola is the last living representative of the Beatragus hunter genus. If this animal with the long muzzle and trademark white-spectacle markings dies, the entire three-million-year-old lineage goes too,” he concluded.