Welcome to KCDN

This is KCDN, an Environmental Management, Economic Empowerment and Poverty Eradication Civil Society.

We welcome you to our site. Kindly feel free to share with us your thoughts. Ideas that add value will be appreciated. Ideas that want to make us improve our physical environment will be welcome. And more so, ideas that redirect us from the lost cause will be of immense value.

It is us who will improve the lot of our Environment, our Economy and make Kenya a Clean Country, where People join hands to work for our own Economic Emancipation and where Municipal Solid Waste Management is looked at as a resource, not as waste.

We need to set the standards in this region of the World and become the referral point in how a people can join hands and work for their own Economic Liberation, where waste can be used as raw material and become a source of employment for our people.

Our collective actions will surely make a difference. This is why in partnership with our Key Strategic Partners- The Public Service Transformation Department, the National Environment Management Authority, the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation,other key Ministries, the Local Authorities in Kenya, the Provincial Administration, A Better World, Akiba Uhaki Foundation and other Partners, we are moving deliberately in sensitizing and mobilizing Kenyans to work towards A Clean Kenya where waste is separated at source.

And this is why we are inviting Kenyans to join with us in The Clean Kenya Campaign and be a Member of Kimisho Sacco Society Ltd

Welcome.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Team Leader & Executive Director,
KCDN, KSSL, KICL & TCKC,
Tel; 0724 365 557,
Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com, kimishodevelopment@gmail.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Oto's Speech during the World Clean-up Day


24th March 2012
Umoja Estate- Moi Drive; The World Clean-up Day.
The Permanent Secretary Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government, Prof Karega Mutahi.
The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development, Arch Philip Sika.
The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development, Dr. James Nyikal.
The Lord Mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority- Mr. Erias Lukwago.
His Excellency the Ambassador of Uganda to Kenya His Excellency BP Emmanuel Hatega.
All Protocal Observed.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all today to Umoja Estate in celebrating The World Clean-up Day with us. KCDN has been in the front line in mobilizing Kenyans into action and we are happy that this day has been made a resounding success due to our commitment and focus.
Mr. Odhiambo T Oketch consults with Mr. Salim Ali Molla- Senior Under Secretary from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government. Hon Sulaiman Kidandala- the Deputy Lord Mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority is on the left
We launched the Clean-up Campaigns in 2009 when we invited the City Council of Nairobi to join with us in cleaning the Komarock Canal. The response was massive and thereafter, we wrote to the Town Clerk requesting if we could do this every Month across the whole of Nairobi.
This request was granted and on the 18th September 2010, His then Worship the Mayor Cllr Geoffrey Majiwa, in the company of several City Fathers and Chief Officers, officially launched the Nairobi City Monthly Clean-up Campaign. From then on, this campaign has been mounted every 3rd Saturday of the Month in Nairobi.
Having seen the success and the willingness of Kenyans to join in this process, and having seen how littered our Towns across the Country were, we decided to Launch The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign to spear head this campaign across all Kenya.
We invited the support of the Provincial Administration at the Office of the President, the Greening Kenya Initiative at the Office of the Prime Minister, the participation of various Local Government Authorities across Kenya as our first Friends, and many Friends of KCDN.
memberes of the Provincial Administration keenly follows the proceeding
We then invited the Rt Hon Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga to graciously launch this Campaign in Mombasa and on the 20th February 2011, this became a reality when the Rt Hon Prime Minister delegated this invitation to Hon Amazon Kingi- the Minister for Fisheries Development to stand in for him.
From that time on, The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign has grown in stature. We have invited more willing partners to join with us and we have launched the Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign in Nairobi, Mombasa, Eldoret, Kisii, Kisumu, Kakamega, Nyeri and Naivasha.
We are happy that our efforts have been supported by the following groups whom we have the confidence of calling Friends of KCDN;
·        Provincial Administration- Office of the President
·        Public Service Transformation Department- Office of the Prime Minister
·        Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Goovernment
·        Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources
·        Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development
·        Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development
·        Akiba Uhaki Foundation
·        A Better World
·        Mugumo Communications Ltd
·        Kenya Private Sector Alliance
·        And a host of Friends of KCDN listed under Partners in our website- http://www.kcdnkenya.org
Mobilizing and sensitizing Kenyans for this Campaign has not been easy. A few people who do not know think that we are really well funded. But our Friends who know, know how difficult it has been for us to mobilize for the success of this Campaign. We have been knocking constantly on several doors with some modest success.
It is hence our intention today to officially invite for the support, both logistics and financial, to The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign. We have proved that it can be done, and with your support, we can work as a team in this Journey of Hope across Kenya.
Mr. Molla introducing Hon Kidandala to the gathering
During our Consultative Forums across Kenya, we are addressing 3 Thematic Areas which we know has the potential of turning Kenya around namely;
·        Environmental Management- where we are inviting Kenyans to keep their neighbourhoods clean
·        Peace Building- where we are inviting Kenyans to appreciate that we are One Family under God, and
·        Good Governance- where we are inviting Kenyans to become active participants in the affairs of our beloved Country.
We have made a few observations in the course of this Campaign;
·        To achieve a Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya, we need to make it official, just like we have it in other Countries, that Kenyans should join in this voluntary process every 3rd Saturday of the Month across the whole Country for 2 hours.
·        We must maintain Order
·        We must have Discipline
·        We must enforce the rule of Law and the Council By-Laws
In so doing, we will surely achieve a Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya.
We would then gladly recommend the following;
·        That the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government, being the Ministry that controls our Local Authorities, should embrace the concept of The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign and become the Patron to the event
·        That the Government allocates resources and office space for this Campaign
·        That the Local Authorities should make budgetary allocations for this Campaign every Month
·        And the Corporates and other Players be enjoined in this Campaign in the spirit of Private Public Partnership.
It is now my pleasure to declare you the 1st General of the trenches- installation Ceremony to follow- with the Following words-
The Hon John Njoroge Michuki left us, but the Spirit of Michuki lives on. With this Spade, go yee forth and be the New Michuki in our Midst. Welcome to the Big Shoes.
Lastly, I want to sincerely thank you all for making this day a success. More so, I want to thank a lady by the name Hellen Wanjoya- who called me and asked me if we could do something for Umoja. She was very helpful in our mobilization process and we at KCDN would really want to appreciate her.
Thank you and God Bless us all.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'- President Barack Obama of the USA.

A Clean, Green and Litter Less Kenya at 50 is possible and achievable.

Odhiambo T Oketch
CEO KCDN Kenya,
National Coordinator- The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
Tel; 0724 365 557
Blog; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
Facebook; Monthly Nationwide Clean up Campaign
Facebook; Odhiambo T Oketch
Odhiambo T Oketch is the immediate former Chairman to the City Council of  Nairobi  Stakeholders Evaluation Team on Performance Contracting and Rapid Results Management. He is also Chair to the Nyamonye Catholic Church Development Fund. He was also the Co-Chair and Coordinator of The Great Nairobi Walk against Corruption that was held in Nairobi on the 22nd October 2010 in partnership with KACC and he is the National Co-ordinator of The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign in Kenya.

                         .......Moving From Talking to Tasking........
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