Nairobians residing along the Nairobi river are living in fear after a 30 minute down pour on December 23, that claimed one life and leaving behind a trail of destruction of personal cars and matatus plus other properties from the randomly falling trees on the eve of 24th.
Many of the residents whose shelter are iron sheet houses build along the river were flooded with mud runn off. The following day was spent cleaning the mess, mud blended with sewer, from human wastes dumped in the trenches that demarcates the houses and their pathways.
One of the resident's 2 cows and a calf that are reared by the river at South B, Kisii village, drowned to be rescued later save the calf. The farmer too would have perished were it not the urgent intervention of fellow residents who rescued him as he enthusiastically struggled to save his fortune, animals.
Whenever it starts raining most of the Nairobian residents this days drown into fear, "I pray that it will not rain again as it did on the eve of 23th," says one of them, "I go through sleepless nights whenever it is raining at night."
"Prayers is our assurance," says another resident of Kisii Village, "I go into prayer whenever it starts raining this days."
Notwithstanding the predicament the residents are finding themselves in, it is noteworthy that no structure is supposed to be build ten meters from such a river.
What do you think is supposed to be done?
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