The group of youth tasked with the unenviable job of cleaning up Nairobi River by Governor Mike Sonko, on Tuesday, November 12, came clean about their daily battle with trauma.
Speaking to Kenyans.co.ke, Nairobi County Communications Director Jacob Elkana revealed that the retrieval of bodies -mostly infants, had a negative effect on the mental state of the workers.
"The youth cleaning the Nairobi River are undergoing emotional trauma. The bodies they retrieve from the river are taking their toll," Elkana stated.
In the latest incident, the team retrieved a body of an infant, which brought the total number of bodies recovered since Sonko launched the cleanup campaign early last year, to 17.
The decomposing body of the infant found floating on the river with its umbilical cord still attached, was retrieved at Korogocho KA Village at the bridge connecting Dandora and Korogocho.
Elkana revealed that Tuesdays' sad incident was reported at Kariobangi police station under OB number 30/12/11/2019.
Mid this year, Sonko had asked police chiefs and county officials to investigate the dumping of bodies at the expansive river.
So far the bodies of 13 infants and 4 adults have been retrieved from the expansive river.
