The government will move victims of floods in Homa Bay county out of schools ahead of reopening on Monday.
Interior PS Raymond Omollo said camps hosting flood victims in the county will be moved out of schools to pave way for learners.
Schools are expected to be reopened on Monday for the second term, after the initial opening date was pushed forward twice, from April 29 and May 6, due to flooding across the country.
“We will have to move at least one or two camps in Homa Bay county outside the schools so that when the schools’ programmes can go on without interruption,” he said.
He urged Kenyans who are yet to move out of flood-prone areas to do so immediately, as a measure towards preventing unnecessary loss of lives.
Omollo spoke at Gembe Hills in Homa Bay during the National Tree Growing Day on Friday, where Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport Kipchumba Murkomen was the guest.
“Besides planting trees, let us also heed to the government's directives so that we don’t continue to lose lives unnecessarily," he said.
"In Homa Bay county, we have our people who are still in camps and we continue to provide food and non-food supplies so that they can regain their livelihoods in the way that is expected.”
Homa Bay is among counties that have been hard hit by flooding.
The PS was accompanied by, among others, Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga.
The government of Homa Bay , he said, donated 50,000 tree seedlings towards the exercise at Gembe Hills.
"I want to thank the governor and her team, the teams from the Ministry of Roads and Public Works and the agencies for all the work they have done by adopting this forest," Omollo said.
He further said that national government administration officers are ready to work closely with the national officers at Forestry, county government and the local leadership to ensure in a matter of years the area is reforested.
"Waziri, when you come back in another three, four years we will be talking on how to harvest the forest, particularly for what we need to sustain the lives of the of this place," he told Murkomen.
