{"id":87162,"date":"2024-09-04T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/04\/man-killed-tens-of-families-displaced-after-nakuru-flash-floods\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T12:03:50","slug":"man-killed-tens-of-families-displaced-after-nakuru-flash-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/man-killed-tens-of-families-displaced-after-nakuru-flash-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed, tens of families displaced after Nakuru flash floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAKURU, Kenya, Sep 4 \u2013 A man was swept away by storm water and tens of families displaced in Kaptembwa area of Nakuru West as heavy rains pounded the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sammy Tarus Maiyo, a Catholic Catechist at St. Patrick Church, Ngata was swept away at Eveready round-about along the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway.<\/p>\n<p>Eye witnesses say he was going home on his motor bike On Tuesday evening when he was pushed into a deep gully by the raging water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA search for his body was launched soon after the rains subsided at about 10:00 pm am his motor bike was left at the scene,\u201d said a resudent, Patrice Ondiek.<\/p>\n<p>Ondiek added that the body was retrieved downstream at mid night and removed to Nakuru County Mortuary.<\/p>\n<p>Maiyo was a senior catechist at St. Patrick\u2019s Ngata Parish and the chairman of all catechists Nakuru Diocese.<\/p>\n<p>The Eveready area all the way to the highly populated Githima and Kaptembwa areas as flood-prone as storm water from Menengai Forest, Kiamunyi and London runs through the place before draining into Ndarugu River.<\/p>\n<p>The current flooding come less than three months after more than 30 families were displaced during the April\/May rainy season.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAKURU, Kenya, Sep 4 \u2013 A man was swept away by storm water and tens of families displaced in Kaptembwa area of Nakuru West as heavy rains pounded the area. Sammy Tarus Maiyo, a Catholic Catechist at St. Patrick Church, Ngata was swept away at Eveready round-about along the Nakuru-Eldoret Highway. Eye witnesses say he [&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-87162","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\/87162","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=87162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}