from odhiambo okecth

Friends,

Working for a Clean Country has never been easy.

As we mobilize and sensitize the people to join in and do the right thing, we have some amongst us who will continue to litter and place garbage by the next corner.

One interesting case is the scenario in Donholm Estate. We did a Clean-up Campaign there on the 6th August 2011 and the attendance was very impressive. In partnership with the City Council of Nairobi, we removed all the garbage that had been placed by the road and in the Trenches.

The Council employees came in very handy and we were really impressed by their resolve to keep the City Clean.

We left the Junction leading into Donholm a very clean place. But the following morning, on a Sunday, I was shocked to find a new heap of fresh garbage, now strategically placed by the road. It has now become a permanent dumping site.

Imagine, the place next to Caltex Petrol Station, just as you leave Outer Ring Road. Immediately on the road, has become a dumping site. Yet, we have Council employees, the Provincial Administration and the People!

This means only one thing; We have people in employment who are not taking their work seriously. How can the people join you to do your work and immediately we finish, fresh garbage is placed right where we had cleaned. More so, it is now placed by the road side for all and sundry to see.

The Managers at the City Council of Nairobi must wake up and do their jobs. We cannot afford to keep talking and mobilizing about a Clean Country when the people whom we are paying to do exactly that are becoming lethargic. It is very annoying that for 3 weeks now, no one seems to have seen the new problem in Donholm.

If placing garbage any how at any time is meant to malign the good efforts you are doing, we should have seen some efforts at arresting these people who are dumping aimlessly by our roads. The problem is not unique to Donholm alone. Just drive across Nairobi and look outside. We are living so carelessly and the people whom we have employed to do this work seems to be living in their own world as well.

It is very sad that we have the Ward Managers, the Divisional Managers, the Assistant Chiefs, the Chiefs, the Nema People- whatever they are doing, the Environmental Officers all across Kenya. They should report such cases to their superiors for immediate action if they are unable to address the same.

Again, we would have wanted to have seen some arrests by now. How can someone come with all that garbage and come and dump the same by the road side and go away with it?

10 meters from where people are now dumping at Donholm, we have a Police Patrol Base. Honestly, what are these people doing? I thought their motto was Utumishi Kwa Wote, and these means remaining vigilant at all the times.

I want to believe that setting traps for these people who dump cannot and can never be rocket science. We simply seem to have inept people handling affairs of our Councils.

Cleaning our Country is a collective undertaking that should involve all of us. But as we join in to help, we expect the people whom we are paying to do their jobs and do it correctly.

As we speak, Juja Road is a mess. Jogoo Road is a mess. People are dumping aimlessly just by these roads and the Council seems helpless in addressing these simple issues. We want to see some arrests and the sooner it is done the better for the image of the City Fathers and the Council employees.

We at KCDN -www.kcdnkenya.org firmly believe that we the People of Kenya can help Clean Kenya.

This is a campaign for Kenya by Kenyans. Let us make it big……

If it is to be, it is up to me. A Clean Kenya Starts With me. A Peaceful Kenya is my Responsibility.

Disclaimer; The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign is about us Kenyans. It involves all Kenyans from the various regions, religious persuasions, political thinking and we do not discriminate against any Kenyans nor any region.

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Nairobi
Nationwide Coordinator – Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
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