This archive report was first published on 12 May 2020.
On May 12, 2020, Kirinyaga County Women Representative Wangui Ngirici called on the National government to include Kirinyaga County in the provision of Emergency relief fund.
According to Wangui, apart from the current situation of floods and landslides being experienced in Kirinyaga, the lower part of the County is semi-arid and people there are in need of support.
Wangui emphasized that Kirinyaga should be considered alongside other affected areas like the western region and should not be assumed it is an agricultural county with no need for food and other relief supplies.
‘We have over 300 families that have been displaced by the floods and now sleeping in a nearby school. Those families are in need of food and blankets to ease their sufferings’ Wangui said.
Wangui also called on the County government to utilize the shs 24 million recently allocated by the County Assembly in the fight against the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
‘The people need to feel the impact of the government’s use of the fund allocated for their use and not provision of just several masks and hand washing tanks’ Wangui said.
She further stated that she received an allocation of shs 522 thousand from the 24 million allocated to women representatives from the 47 counties, which was not even enough for the procuring of masks.
Wangui also appealed to those who are able to pool their resources together and make sure they come to the rescue of the neediest in the society.
She also criticized the County Governor for spending shs 45 million in the provision of bursary while schools are closed, stating that such money should have gone to buy food and other basic requirements for the needy people of Kirinyaga.
Wangui also spoke out against the recent Jubilee party changes, stating that it was wrong and against the party constitution.
