Kenya is facing a serious famine which is the worst ever recorded in her history. Currently more than four million people are facing hunger in what is believed to be the worst in sixty years time.
Though members of parliament have committed sh. 6.66 million for Red Cross Society from their own pockets, the situation is far from being contained after some MPs especially from the hard hit regions shocked their colleagues when they voted against the re-allocation of sh. 2.7 billion from National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) to relief kitty.
The affected areas are Turkana, West Pokot, Wajir, Mandera, Ganze, Isiolo, Samburu, among others-mostly found in North Eastern, Eastern ,parts of Rift Valley and Coastal regions where in Ganze residents are feeding on wild fruits and roots.
Some people have been reported to have succumbed to hunger in Turkana as thousands are emaciated and incapacitated with children so much malnourished. Livestock is equally hard hit as carcasses are lying in the field. Wild life is not spared either.
Despite inadequate facilities, the meteorological department has always sounded alarm whenever there is a disaster in the offing, but the government has always ignored and consequently exposing her citizens in crisis.
In January this year, Meteorological Depart sounded alarm that there was going to be the worst drought spell in Kenya’s history, but government through respective ministers kept on assuring the nation that all was well and there was nothing to panic because they have enough food in strategic grain reserve.
  The very department has indicated that parts of the country perceived to be hunger free may easily fall prey because the expected harvest cannot sustain the required food security.
Last year it was flood disaster, today it is drought calamity just due to ill preparedness because flood should be harvested and stored for irrigation and production of electricity. From yesterday Kenya Power and Lighting Company started power rationing to industries and this in effect has affected job opportunities and driven employees home as investors think of the alternative.
Fuel prices and general inflation has hit the common man below the belt as majority of Kenyans can’t afford a square meal. The situation has deteriorated by influx of refugees from the bordering Somali who are fleeing their country to Kenya for food.
Generally the global warming and the climate change have a far reaching effect in Kenyan situation. We used to have two major rainy seasons, but currently it is unpredictable when the rains will come. For instance Wajir which is Northern Kenya received 195 mm amount of rainfall, the lowest ever recorded.
The poor rain patterns have massively affected the country’s basket in the North Rift and parts of Nyanza as farmers have nothing to even sell to the needy people.
The government led by Prime Minister Raila Odinga has put aside sh. 10 bn to manage the crisis and is working with donor community to alleviate the problem.
Media houses, a section of banks and private sectors have put in a place a mechanism dubbed ‘Kenya for Kenyans’ where Kenyans and other well wishers are asked to send cash donations to a bank account with Kenya Commercial Bank and Safaricom mobile telephone money transfer (MPESA) to raise sh. 600 million in four weeks.