Leaders want families facing landslide danger moved out of Nandi Escarpment

A view of the Nandi Escarpment. More than 3,000 families residing in landslide-prone areas on the escarpment are requesting relocation to avoid disaster, after seeing boulders tumbling downhill during heavy rains. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP

What you need to know:

  • The families are requesting relocation to avoid disaster, after seeing boulders tumbling downhill during heavy rains.
  • They want both national and the county governments to relocate the affected families to end their plight once and for all.
  • The affected families were willing to trade in their plots and have the government get them safer land elsewhere.
  • The Kanu government promised to evacuate the families and resettle them in safer places, but it never made good its pledge.

The National Government has been asked to resettle more than 3,000 families residing in landslide-prone areas on the Nandi Escarpment.

The families have asked to be relocated to avoid disaster, after seeing boulders tumbling downhill during heavy rains.

“Thousands of families in the Tindiret area live in fear because the area is prone to landslides and they have nowhere to go to.

"The government should allocate them alternative land for settlement,” said Mr John Tanui, a spokesperson for the families.

Leaders in Tindiret and Aldai constituencies said families living in Koisegem and Cheremek sub-locations in Meteitei and in Kapkoros locations spend sleepless nights during heavy rains in fear of the rocks falling down from Tindiret Hills.

They want both national and the county governments to relocate the affected families to end their plight once and for all.

The affected families were willing to trade in their plots and have the government get them safer land elsewhere, they added.

Tindiret Member of Parliament Julius Melly said seven people had died since 2000 after their houses were crushed by boulders in Meteitei location.

The Kanu government promised to evacuate the families and resettle them in safer places, but it never made good on its pledge.