At least 400 Turkana households stricken by flash floods have received foodstuffs, household items and other supplies.
The county has partnered with the Kenya Red Cross and Unicef to make the donations.
Turkana deputy county secretary Robert Loyelei said the county government and partners were ready to implement their disaster plans. He is also the chair of the emergency response committee.
Loyelei said that distribution includes non-foot items, maize, beans and cooking oil for residents who lost property from heavy rains leading to flash floods.
Rivers burst their banks, displacing families living in low-lying areas.
The floods killed people and livestock, destroyed homestead and water sources.
“We will be targeting 400 households with two months of food rations of maize, beans and cooking oil. The county will supply food and our partners will assist with food and non-food supplies," Loyelei told the Star on Monday while distributing foodstuffs in Lodwar.
He said each of the households was given a 50kg bag of maize, 10kg beans and two litres of cooking oil.
The county will also provide water from water boozers in the worst-affected areas.
Nine out of 12 water boreholes for 70,000 people in Lodwar and environs were destroyed by floods.
Loyelei said partners including the Kenya Red Cross and Unicef have already donated 400 family kits of household utensils and bedding, 1,500 water jerricans, 200 buckets, 30 cartons of bar soap and 45 litres of chlorine.
Other donors include the Diocese of Lodwar that provided 30 bags of maize, 20 of beans, five 20-litre jerricans of cooking oil and three bales of clothes. World Vision also provided 100 family kits and 160 cartons of bar soap.
The World Food Programme will support irrigation schemes, providing each farmer with a fork jembe and hoe. It will help desalt canals and plough farms.
Loyelei said the county was seeking national government help to restock livestock swept away.
Jane Ekidor of Kanamkemer urged the government to curb future disaster disasters by constructing gabions and sandbag barriers and digging trenches.
“We are tired off begging relief food for survival, the flooding destroyed my homestead. All my assets were swept away by flooding” she said.
Joseph Lokaale of Kaitese village in Loima wants the government to compensate him for the loss of his goats and sheep.
“There is a good market of livestock market but when I reached Lodwar, it was raining heavily and 300 shoats were swept away,” he said.
(Edited by V. Graham)
