Learning in several Garissa schools has been paralysed after school children joined their parents in the search for food, water and pasture for their animals.
The drought which started weeks ago has now escalated further with locals calling on the county government to help them with relief food.
In the heart of the disaster threatening to wipe out the local population, Womankind Kenya Child Programme Coordinator Hassan Ismail has accused the national and county governments for remaining reluctant and unresponsive to the current crisis which has largely affected women and young children.
“The national and county government of Garissa have all the machinery to mitigate the current disaster. But it is like these two levels of governments are waiting for the crisis to reach an emergency level, when many herds and human lives will have perished," said Hassan.
Ismail said they had done drought assessment in the North Eastern counties, where he cited the problem as being severe and one that needed immediate intervention from all relevant stakeholders.