The National Government is working on instituting a long lasting solution to end the perennial flooding in the Nyando Sub County area in Kisumu County.
Interior Principal Secretary (PS) Raymond Omollo disclosed that the National and County Governments are working together to end the constant flooding experienced in all the rainy season in Nyando.
The PS said one of the methods they are going to employ is desilting River Nyando besides building and renovating dykes which will allow free flow of the water.
“Many people have been displaced by the Nyando floods and that’s what has brought us here to find out mechanisms of instituting a lasting solution to the Nyando flooding menace,” said Omolo.
Omollo noted that some of the dykes that had been erected to contain flooding have collapsed and need to be rehabilitated besides desilting the river that is now filled up with sand and water.
The PS equally challenged residents to embrace the planting of trees noting it is one of the natural ways of controlling flooding.
By Milton Onyango
