For a number of years a lady Jane Adika from Budalangi graced our Television sets with the famous phrase of "Naomba Serikali", everytime the country was hit by heavy rains.
The phrase saw her nicknamed Mama Naomba serikali and later on she became the Floods Ambassador. Thanks to her cry the Budalangi, the land was reclaimed, and now the once hit by flood area is a safer ground for the residents, as the Government built dams in river Nzoia that permanently ended the perennial flooding in Budalangi.
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