{"id":130674,"date":"2026-02-11T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/stop-politicising-drought-kindiki-tells-gachagua\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:02:45","slug":"stop-politicising-drought-kindiki-tells-gachagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/stop-politicising-drought-kindiki-tells-gachagua\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Politicising Drought, Kindiki tells Gachagua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Feb 11 \u2013 Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has called on political leaders to stop politicizing drought issues and instead support long-term interventions aimed at ending the crisis in Northern Kenya.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kindiki said President William Ruto\u2019s administration has taken a decisive step by introducing a National Infrastructure Fund, which he described as a permanent solution to recurring drought challenges.<\/p>\n<p>He criticized unnamed leaders for issuing statements from Nairobi without firsthand knowledge of conditions in arid counties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey shouldn\u2019t talk at press conferences in Nairobi. They shouldn\u2019t talk at retreats in hotels; they should come to Garissa, Mandera, and Wajir and travel to understand how Kenya is,\u201d Kindiki said.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy President maintained that sustainable infrastructure development, rather than short-term relief measures, is key to ending the cycle of drought emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, those people are giving us lectures, and it\u2019s not like they haven\u2019t been in government, but we know that President Ruto, for the first time, has come up with a permanent solution to the drought situation by introducing the national infrastructure fund,\u201d Kindiki said.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy President said the fund is designed to support long-term infrastructure projects aimed at mitigating the effects of drought, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Kenya has long grappled with recurring droughts that have devastated livelihoods, particularly among pastoralist communities.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Feb 11 \u2013 Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has called on political leaders to stop politicizing drought issues and instead support long-term interventions aimed at ending the crisis in Northern Kenya. Kindiki said President William Ruto\u2019s administration has taken a decisive step by introducing a National Infrastructure Fund, which he described as a permanent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}