By MN Reporter

Over 2,000 residents and livestock in Nyatike and Kuria West sub counties are living in fear of being electrocuted after heavy rains saw several electric poles falling.

Most affected areas are at Bukira Central Ward and Oodi beach in Karungu in Kuria West and Nyatike respectively.

In Kuria along Isebania-Kehancha a pole is laying precaiously while at Oodi a pole supporting a transformer has already fallen.

Affected people are planning to vacate their homes as their attempts to get redress from Kenya Power and local leaders have fallen on deaf ears.

“The pole is lying precariously through my shamba and homestead and I leave in risk of being electrocuted,” Jack Mwita in Kuria said.

The residents who have been living in fear for their life over the electricity dangers are reported to have started vacating their homes to seek for refuge in the neighboring places.

Julius Obondo, a resident in Oodi beach said the magnitude of danger likely to be to befall on the occupants of the beach may be big.

The Oodi Beach Management Unit chairman Jeckonia Odhiambo said that he has severally tried to contact Kenya power offices in Migori, Homabay, and Kisi but their concern has not been taken serious.

“We are living in a time bomb,” he said.

Meanwhile Kenya power officer in charge of Homabay County who refused to mentioned said they will respond to the problem as “quickly as possible.”