Today, I want to start by appreciating our various partners in Government for the pro-active role they are taking in addressing the question of Municipal Solid Waste and Waste in general.
On the 3rd October 2012, The Chief Public Health Officer in the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation Dr Kepha Ombacho will be chairing a Strategic Planning Session we have called to help address the question of Garbage along the Ngong Tributaries in Laini Saba and Lindi in Kibera at his office. We have invited a small team that can add value to this issue for the meeting.
On the 4th October 2012, the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources will be hosting a Consultative Meeting at their Conference Room at NHIF that will deal with matters related to practical actions that address waste management. Again, a small team has been invited for this meeting.
On the 12th October 2012, we will be hosting a stakeholders meeting in Laini Saba and this will be chaired by the Area Chief Mr. Patrick Adira to help sensitize the locals on the dangers of wanton disposal of waste along the Rivers. We will be offering hope, creating avenues for further engagements in to the future.
Then, the Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development is looking at how best to structure their engagement with The Clean Kenya Campaign- TCKC. While, The Public Service Transformation Department at the OPM are already offering us great support towards achieving a Clean Kenya as our Transformative Agenda.
All these are positive efforts that confirm to us that a Clean Kenya at 50 is possible.
A Clean Ablution Block in the Informal Settlements is possible
Now, we have had the Media as the Missing Link for some times now. However, it is gratifying to note that the major players are beginning to see Waste as News Worthy. Citizen TV will be airing a Feature on Waste during their next Prime Time News. And other Media Houses, especially the FM Stations have come on Board and shortly, the question of Waste and Waste Management will be on our lips on a daily basis.
We at The Clean Kenya Campaign are appreciative of all the groups and teams who have come on Board to help drive this agenda. We have had enough studies on waste, and we do not need any further studies on Waste and Garbage. We need action. And this is why we are excited that the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources is taking a Leading role in Eastleigh Estate as a Pilot Process on the concept of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Through the green growth initiative, the Ministry wishes to link generators of solid waste with those that collect, transport and re-use the waste, and this is what we have all along been talking about at The Clean Kenya Campaign- launching the process of Separation of Waste at Source.
This is one thing we can achieve as a Country.
We are also happy that the University Students under The World Students Summit for Sustainability 2012 will be hosting their Summit between the 12th-16th November 2012 at the Multi-Media University in Nairobi to help address the question of Green Economy. Their theme is really apt; Student Leadership and Innovation towards a Green Economy.
We need all these concereted efforts to help us address the menace that is Garbage and Waste.
The major players who are conspicuously missing in action are The City Council of Nairobi, whose mandate it is to keep our City Clean.
Every body is doing something at a time City Hall is doing nothing except fight for Garbage Collection Contracts.
Let us all work for a Clean Kenya as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50, even as we join in celebrating the life and times of my Uncle.
Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,
On the 3rd October 2012, The Chief Public Health Officer in the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation Dr Kepha Ombacho will be chairing a Strategic Planning Session we have called to help address the question of Garbage along the Ngong Tributaries in Laini Saba and Lindi in Kibera at his office. We have invited a small team that can add value to this issue for the meeting.
Waste dumped carelesslyOn the 4th October 2012, the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources will be hosting a Consultative Meeting at their Conference Room at NHIF that will deal with matters related to practical actions that address waste management. Again, a small team has been invited for this meeting.
On the 12th October 2012, we will be hosting a stakeholders meeting in Laini Saba and this will be chaired by the Area Chief Mr. Patrick Adira to help sensitize the locals on the dangers of wanton disposal of waste along the Rivers. We will be offering hope, creating avenues for further engagements in to the future.
Then, the Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development is looking at how best to structure their engagement with The Clean Kenya Campaign- TCKC. While, The Public Service Transformation Department at the OPM are already offering us great support towards achieving a Clean Kenya as our Transformative Agenda.
All these are positive efforts that confirm to us that a Clean Kenya at 50 is possible.
A Clean Ablution Block in the Informal Settlements is possible Now, we have had the Media as the Missing Link for some times now. However, it is gratifying to note that the major players are beginning to see Waste as News Worthy. Citizen TV will be airing a Feature on Waste during their next Prime Time News. And other Media Houses, especially the FM Stations have come on Board and shortly, the question of Waste and Waste Management will be on our lips on a daily basis.
We at The Clean Kenya Campaign are appreciative of all the groups and teams who have come on Board to help drive this agenda. We have had enough studies on waste, and we do not need any further studies on Waste and Garbage. We need action. And this is why we are excited that the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources is taking a Leading role in Eastleigh Estate as a Pilot Process on the concept of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Through the green growth initiative, the Ministry wishes to link generators of solid waste with those that collect, transport and re-use the waste, and this is what we have all along been talking about at The Clean Kenya Campaign- launching the process of Separation of Waste at Source.
This is one thing we can achieve as a Country.
We are also happy that the University Students under The World Students Summit for Sustainability 2012 will be hosting their Summit between the 12th-16th November 2012 at the Multi-Media University in Nairobi to help address the question of Green Economy. Their theme is really apt; Student Leadership and Innovation towards a Green Economy.
We need all these concereted efforts to help us address the menace that is Garbage and Waste.
The major players who are conspicuously missing in action are The City Council of Nairobi, whose mandate it is to keep our City Clean.
Every body is doing something at a time City Hall is doing nothing except fight for Garbage Collection Contracts.
Let us all work for a Clean Kenya as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50, even as we join in celebrating the life and times of my Uncle.
Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,
The Clean Kenya
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