The Mother of all Clean-ups; A Huge Success

Friends,
The World Clean-up Day was hosted today by KCDN at Umoja Estate in a Massive Clean-up Campaign that was bigger than all the Clean-ups we have ever held in Kenya.
Florence Kanyua of KCDN and participants
The event was officially launched by Mr Salim Ali Molla- a Senior Under Secretary at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government on behalf of Prof Karega Mutahi- the PS, in the company of Hon Suleiman Kidandala- the Lord Deputy Mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority on behalf of Hon Erias Lukwago- the Lord Mayor of Kampala.
Odhiambo T Oketch receiving the Jetlink Express Team
The event  was attended by the following Teams;

1. The Provincial Administration- Office of the President
2. Public Service Transformation Department- Office of the Prime Minister
3. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government
4. Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development
5. Kampala Capital City Authority
   
6. The City Council of Nairobi
7. Jetlink Express Kenya Ltd
8. Yimbo Union
9. Umoja Ward Garbage Collectors Association
10. Eastern Youth Group
11. Century Youth Group
12. Global Bins
13. Environmental Health Students Association from KMTC University of Nairobi
14. Sundrick Cleaning Services
15. Pamoja Youth Groups
16. Mind Bins
17. Green Streets Youths
18. Everest Bins
19. Thika School of Medical and Health Sciences
20. Slum Child Foundation
21. Umoja 1 Market Leaders
    
22. Umoja 1 Market Traders
    
23. Tumaini Primary School
24. Kifaru Primary School
25. Unity Primary School
26. Umoja Primary School
27. Peter Kibukosya Primary School
28. Busara Primary School
29. Peter Kibukosya Secondary School
30. Jygro Services
31. Vijana Youth Cleaners
32. Everest Youth Group
33. Embakasi Vision Organization
34. Kenya National Human Rights- Embakasi
35. National Tax Payers Association
36. Embakasi Peace Group
37. Umoja Peace Forum
38. Umoja Car Wash Group
39. Sunrick Youth Group
40. Mocha Bins
41. Alva City Bins
42. Jua Kali Youth Group
43. Jahazi Self Help Group
44. Clean World Services
45. TB Self Help Group
46. Baby Services Children's Home
47. Kisumu Clean-up Team
48. Grandstar Junior Academy
49. Umoja Division Peace Committee
50. International Youth fellowship 
51. Umoja 1 Transport Group
52. Eco Youth Group
53. Umoja Environment Division Office
54. Attain Bins
55. Sky View Bins
56. Mosse Bins
57. and the KCDN Team.

We are certain there are many Teams whose names we did not capture at the time for registration.
We were encouraged by the Deputy Lord Mayor of Kampala who said that they borrowed the Monthly Clean-up Concept from Kenya, but they have perfected the process. They hold the Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaigns every 4th Saturday of the Month and when they descend on a Parish, everything stops for the entire duration of the Clean-up.
Mr. Nyaga, Odhiambo, Mr Molla and the Deputy Lord Mayor of Kampala in a Group photo before the launch
All shops and activities are stopped and every body is by order enjoined in the process. He appreciated the efforts KCDN and The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign Team have been doing, and urged the Government to step in and make the process an all inclusive affair. He was dismayed that as we cleaned Moi Drive, many residents did not join in the process, but rather went on with their daily activities.
Finally, he passed greetings from The Lord Mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority and promised to invite us to also join them in one of their clean-up activities.
Prof Mutahi on his part appreciated KCDN for championing the Clean-up Campaign through The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign and called on all City, Municipal and Town CEOs to embrace and actively participate in the Campaign every 3rd Saturday of the Month from 7.00am to 9.00am across the Country from now on. He promised to personally attend all the subsequent Clean-up events across Kenya.
Hon Sulaiman Kidandala- the Deputy Lord Mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority, Mr. Salim Ali Molla- Senior Under Secretary Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minsitry of Local Government and Odhiambo T Oketch in action
He said that in partnership with all other relevant Ministries, his Ministry will work with relevant stakeholders including KCDN to enhance cleanliness of our Towns.
The event was also attended by a strong contigent from Jetlink Express Kenya Ltd. The City Council of Nairobi was represented by Mr. Gabriel Omondi- an Assistant Director of Environment, while the Provincial Administration was represented by the Area Chiefs.
We will post the entire speech from Prof Karega Mutahi in our subsequent postings.
On behalf of the KCDN team, I want to sincerely thank all Friends of KCDN, especially the Public Service Transformation Department and the City Council of Nairobi for making the hosting of today's event the success story it was.
Odhiambo T Oketch, the Deputy Lord Mayor of Kampala Capital City Authority and Mr. Salim Molla following the proceedings
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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
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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.......

KCDN meets Brand Kenya Board and Public Service Transformation Department

Friends,
We were pleased to host our first Consultative meeting with the CEO of Brand Kenya Board Ms Mary Kimonye at her offices today in the morning.
We had earlier made contacts about Brand Kenya Board joining in The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign and we made good progress today.

Ms Njau, Odhiambo, Ms Kimonye, Ms Muchiri, Mr. Kivindyo and Dr Nzilu at Brand Kenya Board this morning.

 Ms Kimonye assured us of her support and participation of the Board in this noble Initiative. The Board will sit in both the Media and Publicity Committee and the Financial Resources Mobilization Committee.
Ms Kimonye was accompanied by Dr Nzilu- Director Marketing, Mr. Musyoki Kivindyo- Director Communication, Ms Veronicah Muchiri and ms Edna Kuria while I was accompanied by Ms Pauline Njau from Media Machine. She Chairs the Media and Publicity Committee.
Later in the afternoon, we met with Mr. Emmanuel Lubembe- the Head Public Service Transformation Department at the Office of the Prime Minister.
Mr. Lubembe was accompanied by Ms Soraiya Shariff, Ms Sharon Makena, Ms Emily Angaine and Ms Linda Waireri all from the Public Service Transformation Department. It is important to note that PSTD through the Transforming Kenya Initiative are going to be our Key Partners in this campaign alongside many other key Government Departments, the Local Authorities and the Corporates.
We will be launching the 2nd Circle of The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign on 22nd October 2011 at Huruma Estate when we will be hosting the official launch of the National Litter Picking Day with His Excellency the President and the Rt Hon Prime Minister and we have already constituted a Consultative Team to help with the planning.
This team was officially launched by the Provincial Commissioner Nairobi Mr. Ndirangu Njoroge on the 24th August 2011. We want to invite all Kenyans to own the Clean-up Campaign and help Clean Kenya.
A Clean Kenya Starts With Me.
Peace and blessings,
Odhiambo T Oketch

Lethargic Council Services

Friends,
Working for a Clean Country has never been easy.
As we mobilize and sensitize the people to join in and do the right thing, we have some amongst us who will continue to litter and place garbage by the next corner.
One interesting case is the scenario in Donholm Estate. We did a Clean-up Campaign there on the 6th August 2011 and the attendance was very impressive. In partnership with the City Council of Nairobi, we removed all the garbage that had been placed by the road and in the Trenches.

Outering/Jacaranda Road Junction in Donholm Nairobi

The Council employees came in very handy and we were really impressed by their resolve to keep the City Clean.
We left the Junction leading into Donholm a very clean place. But the following morning, on a Sunday, I was shocked to find a new heap of fresh garbage, now strategically placed by the road. It has now become a permanent dumping site.
Imagine, the place next to Caltex Petrol Station, just as you leave Outer Ring Road. Immediately on the road, has become a dumping site. Yet, we have Council employees, the Provincial Administration and the People!

Outering Road Donholm Round About in Nairobi

This means only one thing; We have people in employment who are not taking their work seriously. How can the people join you to do your work and immediately we finish, fresh garbage is placed right where we had cleaned. More so, it is now placed by the road side for all and sundry to see.
The Managers at the City Council of Nairobi must wake up and do their jobs. We cannot afford to keep talking and mobilizing about a Clean Country when the people whom we are paying to do exactly that are becoming lethargic. It is very annoying that for 3 weeks now, no one seems to have seen the new problem in Donholm.
If placing garbage any how at any time is meant to malign the good efforts you are doing, we should have seen some efforts at arresting these people who are dumping aimlessly by our roads. The problem is not unique to Donholm alone. Just drive across Nairobi and look outside. We are living so carelessly and the people whom we have employed to do this work seems to be living in their own world as well.
It is very sad that we have the Ward Managers, the Divisional Managers, the Assistant Chiefs, the Chiefs, the Nema People- whatever they are doing, the Environmental Officers all across Kenya. They should report such cases to their superiors for immediate action if they are unable to address the same.
Again, we would have wanted to have seen some arrests by now. How can someone come with all that garbage and come and dump the same by the road side and go away with it?
10 meters from where people are now dumping at Donholm, we have a Police Patrol Base. Honestly, what are these people doing? I thought their motto was Utumishi Kwa Wote, and these means remaining vigilant at all the times.

Embakasi Girls Secondary School; cleanliness the kind that we want across Kenya

I want to believe that setting traps for these people who dump cannot and can never be rocket science. We simply seem to have inept people handling affairs of our Councils.
Cleaning our Country is a collective undertaking that should involve all of us. But as we join in to help, we expect the people whom we are paying to do their jobs and do it correctly.
As we speak, Juja Road is a mess. Jogoo Road is a mess. People are dumping aimlessly just by these roads and the Council seems helpless in addressing these simple issues. We want to see some arrests and the sooner it is done the better for the image of the City Fathers and the Council employees.
We at KCDN -www.kcdnkenya.org  firmly believe that we the People of Kenya can help Clean Kenya.
This is a campaign for Kenya by Kenyans. Let us make it big......
If it is to be, it is up to me. A Clean  Kenya  Starts With me. A Peaceful Kenya is my Responsibility.
Disclaimer; The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign is about us Kenyans. It involves all Kenyans from the various regions, religious persuasions, political thinking and we do not discriminate against any Kenyans nor any region.

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch

CEO KCDN Nairobi

Nationwide Coordinator - Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
National Coordinator- Friends of KNH Maternity Unit

It has not been easy:...

The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign in Kenya has never been an easy journey.

Today, we want to celebrate all Friends of KCDN who have made the following happen;
Our Journey of Hope Part 1
Our Journey of Hope Part 2
Support to KCDN from January 2011 to August 2011
Launch of The Consultative Team Members
KCDN into the Future AUF Support
KCDN Visits Thogoto Kikuyu
KCDN-Profile-28th May 2011
Friends of KCDN 8th May 2011
The Eldoret Campaign
KCDN SUPPLEMENT
The Kisii Campaign 17th June 2011
Speech by Oto to the ODM Youth 2012 Convention
Where are the Emerging Crop of Leaders
The Kisumu Clean-up Campaign on 16th July 2011
Kakamega Clean-up Campaign
The Donholm Clean up Campaign
The Nyeri Clean up Campaign


Please stay blessed.



We are looking forward to cementing our Partnership with you and more Partners. And on the 22nd October 2011, we will be hosting the National Litter Picking Day at Huruma Estate in Nairobi as from 7.00am.


A Consultative Team to help plan for this day was launched by the Hon PC Nairobi Mr. Ndirangu Njoroge and the Team is real busy at work. We will give major details on the 21sts September 2011 as soon as the 3rd Consultative Team meeting ends.


We are inviting all Kenyans whenever they are to help keep our neighbourhoods clean.


Stop throwing litter any how and stop depositing garbage in the next corner. This is our country and we must help keep her Clean.


We are looking forward to making Kenya a Clean Country as a Team.

We at KCDN firmly believe that we the People of Kenya can help Clean Kenya.

This is a campaign for Kenya by Kenyans. Let us make it a huge success......

If it is to be, it is up to me. A Clean  Kenya  Starts With me. A Peaceful Kenya is my Responsibility.

Disclaimer; The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign is about us Kenyans. It involves all Kenyans from the various regions, religious persuasions, political thinking and we do not discriminate against any Kenyans nor any region.

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch

CEO KCDN Nairobi

Nationwide Coordinator - Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign
National Coordinator- Friends of KNH Maternity Unit

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