Losing residence owing to calamities such as floods must be devastating. It comes with threats to life, loss of property, disruption of earnings and loss of a social ecosystem. The associated emotional and sentimental loss is beyond imagination.
Their plight should be addressed sufficiently, and quickly, and not be used as fodder for ping-pong politics. But Kenya must learn lessons. While the occurrence of natural disasters, and the prevailing climate change consequences may be beyond us, we are endowed with skills and capacity to innovate and mitigate accordingly.
