The Clean Kenya Campaign is bringing to the fore the ideals
that define a cleaner, safer and decent society to live in.
The parameters that define cleaner, safer and decent cities
are not only the physical cleanliness. Cleaner cities are a function of timeliness
and satisfactory service delivery. The reason most of our towns and cities
cannot be defined as clean is because besides the garbage, rot and filth we
have challenges of order, service delivery and poor enforcement of regulations.
It is our belief that our cities can also get these basics
right, that our public servants tasked with ensuring cleaner, safer and decent
environments are men and women who get their priorities right, plan, implement,
monitor, track and evaluate the plans they have.
It is for this reason that The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC, having
evaluated the priorities of The City Council of Nairobi, especially the
Directorate of Environment; are convinced this Department is not keen on sorting the
problem of waste in our capital city.
Sample this; the council has 8 working trucks. Nairobi has 8
divisions. That is one truck per division. This is not adequate. The council
contracts 20 trucks to supplement its efforts at a cost of Ksh. 40 million per Month. The
cost of buying one truck is roughly Ksh. 10 million. Would it not be prudent to
spend tax payers’ money investing in purchasing 4 trucks every month to build
the capacity of the council to collect garbage? At that rate, the council could
buy 48 trucks in one year, which means 6 more trucks for every division. In the
second and subsequent years, the council would only be spending money on fuel and servicing the
48 trucks.
TCKC is convinced that CCN is not keen on
sorting waste issues in this town. This is why we are inviting Kenyans who believe
that we can live better lives to join us on tracking the councils and how they
spend our hard earned revenue. It is time to ensure we demand for cleaner
environments as envisaged in Chapter 4
Article 42 of the constitution; Every person has a right to a clean and healthy environment. Together with our Partners, we want to ensure that waste is managed and that we sort it out as should be done, and these things are not rocket science.
Kindly sign this petition if you believe we can change Nairobi by taking to task those in public office and not performing;
http://www.gopetition.com/
Otieno Sungu,
Director; Programmes and
Communication
The Clean Kenya Campaign-
TCKC
Email; otienoraphael@gmail.com
Tel. 0729294743. Blogspot; http://kcdnkomarockswatch. blogspot.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
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The Clean Kenya
Campaign is an Initiative of The KCDN
KenyaTel. 0729294743. Blogspot; http://kcdnkomarockswatch. blogspot.com
Website; www.kcdnkenya.org
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