A section of the Kargi Marsabit road that is in deplorable state | PHOTO-CARITAS Marsabit
By Gerald Mutethia
The poor and deplorable road network is to blame for the slow response aimed at reducing the effects of the current strange disease ravaging Kargi village in Marsabit County.
Area residents have appealed to the National and County Governments to make area roads mot-arable to enable residents to move with ease not only to the hospitals but also markets and other destinations.
Peter Arsurio a village Elder said the road network has disadvantaged them for a long time and is getting worse every year, with the government apparently doing nothing about it.
The area has been faced with a monster kind of disease where nine people in Kargi, Marsabit County have succumbed to a strange ailment. The nine include five men, one woman, and three children.
However, the County health department says they are doing everything possible to contain and manage the outbreak of the strange disease.
Peter Obeille a resident said the notorious habit of waiting for the eruption of a crisis before acting on time-bomb issues begging for attention should never be tolerated.
He said that the bad roads have resulted in untold hardship making them struggle to cope with the high transport cost in and out of their community.
“What we pass through whenever it rains cannot be explained. All we demand is for the Government to come to our aid. The suffering is too much” Obeille said.
According to Gabriel Gambare an officer working with Caritas Marsabit, the residents of Kargi are expressing displeasure over the road, which is a cry that action must be taken.
