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| The nutritious food from Germany abode the cargo plane will be distributed by WFP to starving Kenyans |
The world is now responding to the distress of the hunger striken victims in northern Kenya with a donation from Germany landing at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Saturday night.
The 50 metric tons of food valued at over 10 million shillings will be distributed to the hunger victims in northern Kenya under the control of the World Food Program.
Kenyans living in the North have been fighting hunger and drought that has been termed the worst in decades.
With Kenyans having responded overwhelming to the plea of their drying brothers and sisters through the Kenyans4Kenya initiative, the rest world is chipping in too.
The 50 metric tons of assorted nutritious food from Germany is destined for hunger victims in the North region.
The response is part of governments and individuals from other regions who have moved in to assist feed the hungry.
Govt. criticism
Meanwhile the government has come under attacked being accused of doing little to help starving Kenyans.
Narc- Kenya leader Martha Karua hit out at the two principals for not showing leadership while Kenyans continued to suffer.
"If we had able leaders and showed will then Kenyans would not be dying of starvation as currently being witnessed", she said.
The Gichugu MP was speaking in Njambini Nyandarua County during the flagging off of tonnes of relief food.
The food was donated by locals and will be distributed to Kenyans affected by drought in Turkana and other areas.
However Karua wondered what the government was doing yet there was plenty of food in the area.
"Farm produce is rotting in the farms in Njambini and government has failed to buy it yet its says it has to import food," she lamented.
She said that were it not for poor planning, the ministry of special programmes would have been mobilised to buy the food and distribute it to Turkana.
"The management crisis currently being witnessed has forced surplus and excesses of farm produce in one area while tge other is starving," Karua noted.
Karua called on the government to act fast and buy the produce locally instead of waiting to import with inflated prices.
Speaking at the ceremony, local leaders called on the government to collect the food stuffs in Nyandarua and distribute to Kenyans in northern Kenya .
One of the leaders Beth Wahito said some powerful people in government were cashing in on the drought situation in the country.
"Why should we import GMO maize at exaggerated prices yet we had surplus in western Kenya," she wondered.
Nyandarua residents said that food was rotting in their farms and in spite numerous calls for the government to buy it, little has been done.
They accused their legislator David Ngugi of meddling on national affairs while leaving them to wallow in misery.
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