Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Saturday joined Red Cross in distributing relief food to starving Kajiado residents.
The county is among those worst hit by the ongoing drought in the country.
This is after President William Ruto on Friday deployed the Cabinet including his deputy Gachagua and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi to oversee the distribution of relief food in various parts of the country today.
The move comes as the government scales up mitigation measures to save at least 4.5 million Kenyans affected by the ravaging drought.
The situation has pushed to limits the lives of Kenyans in at least 23 counties across the country.
Kenya's drought is said to be the worst in 40 years.
At least 4.5 million Kenyans are in dire need of relief food.
Animals have not been left behind.
An estimated 2.5 million livestock deaths have so far been reported in the drought-stricken counties due to lack of vegetation and water.
Twenty out of the 23 traditional Asal counties and 45 wards in nine additional counties in Rift valley, Mt Kenya and Lake Victoria region are affected.
