Friday, November 16, 2012

TRANSFORMING NAIROBI-SERVICE DELIVERY KEY TO CLEANER CITIES



The Clean Kenya Campaign is bringing to the fore the ideals that define a cleaner, safer and decent society to live in.
The filth that is Nairobi City!
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.
A street in the once green city in the sun, Nairobi!
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.
This is the industrial area of Nairobi!
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.
This cannot be a country that has ideals of cleanliness, timeliness and satisfactory service delivery 
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/petitions/removing-the-director-of-environment-at-ccn-from-office.html

Otieno Sungu,
Director; Programmes and Communication
The Clean Kenya Campaign- TCKC
The Clean Kenya Campaign is an Initiative of The KCDN Kenya






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