More than 100 residents of Lailuba village in Tigania East in Meru are homeless after storms swept across the constituency and destroyed farms and houses. The residents said their cattle were swept away by floods along the newly tarmacked Muriri-Isiolo road. The angry residents over the weekend barricaded the road to protest shoddy construction works by the contractor who they blamed for re-emergence of the floods. The Muthara ward representative Andrew Kobia said the poor workmanship is to blame for poor drainage. “Transport along the highway has been cut off after several sections of the...
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