Police have intensified security surveillance as the multiagency team continues with rescue missions in Machakos County. https://rb.gy/qsouml
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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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