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00:10 People should move away from the Ati River.

00:20 Ati River, I can say, the banks have swollen.

00:26 We have never seen that again.

00:28 So we're asking our people, it's very hot now and we know it's going to rain.

00:31 So we're asking our people to move away from the river.

00:34 And especially these ones who are on this side,

00:36 they should just move to other places and not sleep here.

00:39 Because we do not know what will happen maybe overnight.

00:41 We are lucky this came in the morning.

00:43 If it had come at night, then it would have been something else.

00:46 The people have been rescued here.

00:48 We have spoken to them.

00:50 Some of them will stay with their relatives.

00:51 The ones that do not have anywhere to stay, we will find a place for

00:54 them to stay and feed them.

00:56 We are already providing food and cloth and relief supplies here.

01:02 Yeah, medication, they are well taken care of.

01:04 I want to tell the developers, and here we are not going to mince our words.

01:08 We want to tell the developers, you know the law.

01:12 You know how far you should be from the river.

01:15 So we are going to enforce that.

01:17 The national government and the county government will enforce that because we

01:21 are not going to allow our people to die because of things that should be avoided.

01:26 Around 7 in the morning, the flood started.

01:31 I heard people screaming.

01:32 So we had to leave the riverbanks and go straight to Zimbabwe.

01:37 So within a short period of time, like 20 minutes, the flood was here every month.

01:42 So we were trapped, we couldn't leave, we couldn't do anything.

01:46 We went to the hotel, and the county government came and rescued us.

01:53 But so many people were stuck inside the house.

01:55 Say like 101 people.

01:57 Today we just woke up to a bit of a shock with the flood that happened.

02:03 And it's a shock because yesterday we had a very peaceful night.

02:07 In fact, it didn't rain that much, and we were not expecting this.

02:12 So this morning when I was at work, I just received a call from my wife and

02:15 she said, I think there's a fence just aside our house that has been broken by

02:21 the water, and the water was flowing in very high volumes towards the compound.

02:25 And so she heard some screams from neighbors trying to evacuate their houses

02:31 and their cars.

02:32 But by the time she got downstairs trying to get outside the house,

02:36 the water was already at the door.

02:38 So she couldn't even open the door.

02:40 So what happened is she just took the kids.

02:44 So she's in the house with two househelps and five kids.

02:48 So she took the kids and the house help and they went upstairs.

02:50 When it comes to a number of houses, so the whole block facing this side,

02:54 all the houses, all the roads have been affected.

02:57 That's about, probably about 60 or so houses or more.

03:01 The amount of property that have been lost, I don't know,

03:05 it could be in millions.

03:07 Cuz the houses, there are some cars that were submerged.

03:10 I think when I came here at nine, I couldn't even see my wife's car.

03:14 It was submerged.

03:15 All the cars, some of them have even popped the airbags.

03:19 We've seen some of them malfunction.

03:20 So the amount of property that have been lost, I can say it's probably in millions.

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The Star Kenya 23

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