[Kenyans queuing for relief food in a past photograph.About 150,000 residents of Wajir county are in dire need of food aid following poor rains that have overlapped into the new year.] (Nation.co.ke)Following poor rainfall in several parts of Wajir County, about 150,000 residents are in dire need of food aid to mitigate the effects of the scourge.
According to county drought coordinator Ahmed Farah the situation was occasioned by failure of long and short rains from last year which has since overlapped to this year.
Farah singled out Wajir West and Wajir South sub counties as some of the worst hit by the calamity even as he assured that plans were underway to try and arrest the situation.
"We have introduced livestock feed programmes and increased water trucking to reduce the effects of the drought", he said.
Wajir just like other parts of the Northern Kenya regions are largely arid with rainfalls highly unpredictable.
According to the latest report by National Disaster Management Authority,close to 300,000 Kenyans in the said regions are facing food scarcity which has been attributed to unreliable rainfall patterns.