from: odhiambo okecth
Friends,
After following the flowing tributes at the Funeral Service for the late Hon Joshua Orwa Ojode, I come to town and headed for the Railway Restaurant yesterday afternoon.
I crossed the Haile Sellassie Avenue just around Church House and as I was walking down to the Restaurant, walking on the side of the Park adjacent to the Railway Headquarters, I was simply shocked.
The park is well covered in the Co-operate colours of the Co-operative Bank and as you see the Co-operative Bank Signages, you also see masses of human waste- my……in the middle of Nairobi!
I was shocked.
How can we have people relieving themselves by the park, in the middle of Nairobi, just by the Sign Posts of Co-operative Bank?
Again, there is a beautiful park along Aga Khan Walk, just next to Kencom- the headquarters of the Kenya Commercial Bank in Nairobi, some people have formed the habit of relieving themselves here. The place is always very smelly every morning and you wonder, who is this who is relieving himself in Town? And where are the enforcement agencies?
For a man or a woman to relieve himself or herself, you must undress. How come no one has been arrested doing his or her thing in Town?
The good thing I did not have my Camera with me. I will take a walk to the same place tomorrow at 10am, and if I get the human wastes still in the many places I saw, I will take photos and share with the whole world.
Someone is sleeping on his job somewhere. These people who help themselves in the middle of Town must be arrested and canned- they should not be taken to any court. They should be canned and canned thoroughly.
At The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC, we are working with our Friends and Partners to ensure that Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Nyeri become models of Clean Towns in Africa and in the World. As we struggle with this process, we need all to intervene and play their part.
Waste Management is a behaviour that is ingrained in our psyche and we only need to make a deliberate decision, and all will fall in place.
Last week on the 12th June 2012, we hosted a Consultative Meeting between The Clean Kenya Campaign, the City Council of Nairobi, the National Environment Management Authority and the Public Service Transformation Department that aims at piloting Separation of Waste at Source in Nairobi from 1st August 2012. We will be working with a select sample group to see how best this can be done.
Again, we have been in touch with the Town Clerks at Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Nyeri and we are working with them together with our Partners on how best to make our Towns clean. And in September 2012, we will be rolling out a Massive Cleanliness and Awareness Campaigns to streamline us to our new thinking.
This is a process that will create massive opportunities for the people of Kenya and if we succeed in making these Towns Models across Africa, we will be a better society and Kenyans will bestride the world like the proverbial colossus.
We cannot definitely achieve this when our own people are still relieving themselves in open parks in the middle of the Capital City of Kenya.
Lastly, we will be hosting a Massive Clean-up and Awareness Campaign across all the 74 Wards of Nairobi on the 21st July 2012 which will be attended by all the Nairobi Members of Parliament, all the Civic Leaders in Nairobi, 74 CEOs from the Corporate World and many Friends of Environment.
Our appeal is real simple; Please make your immediate neighbourhood Clean.
No one will Clean Kenya for us. It must be our responsibility.
Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,
The Clean Kenya Campaign- TCKC
Tel; 0724 365 557,
Blogspot; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com
The Clean Kenya Campaign; Website-www.kcdnkenya.org