Hunger-stricken Turkana has its leaders refusing aids by good samaritans and red cross who laid fundraising through pay bill.
Led by Governor Josphat Nanok, the leaders said they do not want assistance from aid agencies.
Speaking in Turkana South while marking world water day, the leaders termed those making funds appeals as drought terrorists and drought businessmen.
Governor Nanok who has been on the spot over the county government’s approach including resource allocation, response and mitigation efforts lashed out at the media for its coverage.
“You keep bringing morning shows with experts and not local leaders,” said Governor Nanok.
The governor says his government has supplied food and clean water to hunger-stricken families as part of its mitigation effort.
In a report done by Citizen TV, the reporter focused on an elderly couple in Karoseket village in Kainuk.
For the last one week, 70 year old Mzee Paul Erot Arokot and his wife Josephine have been surviving on boiled meat soup from their goat which died in the drought.
The aid agencies and citizens, mostly out of the county, have been intervening with relief food but the leaders insist that solutions for Turkana will only come from the Turkanas themselves.
Is it okay for governor to dismiss funds yet people are actually hungry?