Nairobi governor, Johnson Sakaja, responded to a viral tweet calling on him to clear a 15-year-old garbage in the city.
On Friday, November 4, a tweep with the pseudonym ‘Honey Farsafi’ asked her followers to help her reach out to Sakaja, who was urged to dig out a sprawling hill of waste and clear the stench affecting Korogocho slum residents.
“If this Tweet pops up on your timeline, I'm begging yet again to re-tweet and give it attention. This is day three of trying to get Governor Sakaja Johnson's attention on this issue,” her Twitter post read.
“It is our last resort. This sewer leakage has been at Korogocho slums for over 15 years. If it was some estate, they'd have done something about it,” she wrote further on her Twitter page.
In response, over 2,000 people re-tweeted and obviously got the governor's attention.
A day later, on November 5, Sakaja responded to her with a video in which excavators were recorded digging out the waste.
“15 years? Will solve it. We found It’s a mixture of sewer and stormwater.
"We are de-silting the clogged culverts and will follow up with the outfall. Thanks for raising it,” Sakaja responded.
Additionally, he reached back to other citizens who called on him to attend to the worsening case of the Dandora dumping site.
Sakaja dispelled reports claiming that he has never toured the dumping area.
“I have been there so many times. There’s a plan that we shall execute,” Sakaja assured.
County Government officials, on Friday, November 4, raided several supermarkets in the city, unearthing how waste products are poorly managed.
Several supermarkets were accused of using street boys to dump waste in Nairobi.
While speaking during the operation, Nairobi County Environment and Natural Resources Director, Malawi John-Paul, noted that the facilities circumvented by-laws for proper waste management. One supermarket was shut down in Ruai.
