Kerio escarpments in Elgeyo Marakwet county has seen an annual event of landslide during rainy seasons causing mayhem to residents. The Kenya Red Cross Society and the national government helped Yeko and more than 150 other people in West Pokot to rebuild houses either buried or swept by running waters and debris. Death trapsLike Yeko, Daniel Chuiti, from the Kerio escarpments, never left his house in Turesia in the neighbouring Elgeyo Marakwet County after surviving a landslide in December 2019. But locals return to the death traps, with the hope that another rainy season will not result in a landslide. It is our hope that landslides do not occur again,” Yeko, who hails from West Pokot, told The Standard.

Source: Standard Digital June 28, 2021 21:00 UTC