For Majority of Kenyans, when the rain falls it is always a rejoice because it brings forth another season of planting and growing crops, pasture or an opportunity to collect rain water for either commercial, domestic or for livestock use.
For most Kenyans, the rainfall offers a chance to secure livelihoods through agricultural production while providing relief from water scarcity.
This is not the case for most people living in Garissa and Tana River counties, especially those living along the River Tana river line.
To them, the rains bring mass displacement due to loss of shelter to floods, destruction of livelihoods especially when their farms are swept off and the disruption of education for their children.
Every rain season, the residents in these counties have to keep listening to their radios or watching the news on Television for flood alerts so that they can move to higher grounds before the floods hit their villages.
Sometimes, the flooding is not even as a result from rains in the region, it is when rains fall in the River Tana Upstream counties or the controlled release of water from the seven folk dams ( Masinga, Kaburu, Gitaru, Kindaruma and Kiambere) which cases the swelling and breaking of the River banks leaving behind a tail of destruction.
We spoke to a section of the victims affected by the ongoing flooding in Garissa and this is what they had to say....
