Friends,
We have for a long time now been talking about Climate Change and Global Warming, and apparently, nothing significant is being done to mitigate the effects of this on humanity.
In Nairobi, we are living a contrast. In some parts, the status of our physical environment is so wanting. The roads are so dilapidated to an extent that the amount of pollution emitted when vehicles pass by are intoxicating. It becomes very dusty and this is affecting our people.
Again, in some neighbourhoods, garbage mounds pile by as if we do not care. The relevant agencies are on leave and we are left to decide what to do by ourselves.
But the sad part of it is that the technocrats who are supposed to lead us in mitigating Climate Change and Global Warming are busy Conferencing. If they are not in Rio, they will be in Durban, Geneva, Tokyo, New York or in London.
National Youth Forum on a Mission to interrogate the agenda of the Presidential Candidates on Youth and Environment
If there is nothing happening in these Towns, they will create one local solution and converge at some posh Hotel in Naivasha or the South Coast. That is their way of fighting Climate Change and Global Warming.
This is so depressing because, change will NEVER come through Conferencing and Town Hopping. We must put our minds to work and soil our hands in action. Only then will we compete at whatever level.
We have become a Nation of Techno-Conference Officers. We have all options at finger tips and we talk like Bees in Action. The only element we are missing is the tasking bit and converting all this talk into action.
I have always said this, and for effect, I will repeat the same; the kind of money we spend Globe Trotting and Conferencing is enough to repair our Roads and mitigate against the dusty emissions that is choking our neighbourhoods and in the process, suffocating us to death; Cancer.
The kind of money we spend Globe Trotting and Conferencing is enough to buy seedlings and give the same to Kenyans for planting. This will mitigate on the Tree Cover we keep complaining about.
The kind of money we spend Globe Trotting and Conferencing is enough to put up modern waste recycling plants that will help sort the menace that is waste all over Kenya.
The kind of money we spend Globe Trotting and Conferencing is enough to set up modern medical facilities that can become rapid response units to mitigate against the opportunistic ailments that develop as a result to poor waste management.
Komarock Canal, a product of The Clean Kenya Campaign
Again, look at a Town like Nairobi. We have a population of slightly above 4 million people generating slightly above 2,400 tonnes of waste per day. Now, the City Council of Nairobi, the people whose primary responsibility is to manage the waste we generate, have all gone to sleep.
How did Dandora develop to the current monster we are all talking about? Someone at the Council must have slept on the job. Instead of the Department of Environment waking up to this reality and help address the problem, they have seen this as a milch cow.
They have chosen to contract 20 Garbage Collection Trucks at Kshs 40 million per month instead of buying their own Fleet of vehicles. Is this prudent management of Public Funds? I bet not. Kshs 40m can give us 4 new Garbage Trucks every Month and in 10 short Months, we will be having 40 such Trucks across the 8 Divisions and waste collection will surely improve.
But tell this to the mandarins at the Department and you instantly become their enemy. If telling them the truth is painful, we will make sure we tell them more such truths to wake them up from their slumber.
The Department of Environment at the City Council of Nairobi must be told in no uncertain terms that shifting waste from all corners of Nairobi to Dandora is NOT Waste Management. We expect better results from this team, and we are willing to continue working with them to ensure that Nairobi regains her lost Glory.
A bunch of a few fellows serving their own self interest cannot sit on our way to making Kenya Clean. If this Team is rudderless the way they are, they must give way, or they must be forced out.
Nairobi is the Capital City of Kenya and we cannot allow her to sink this low. Please look at the enclosed photos, all taken in Nairobi;
We have for a long time now been talking about Climate Change and Global Warming, and apparently, nothing significant is being done to mitigate the effects of this on humanity.
In Nairobi, we are living a contrast. In some parts, the status of our physical environment is so wanting. The roads are so dilapidated to an extent that the amount of pollution emitted when vehicles pass by are intoxicating. It becomes very dusty and this is affecting our people.
Again, in some neighbourhoods, garbage mounds pile by as if we do not care. The relevant agencies are on leave and we are left to decide what to do by ourselves.
But the sad part of it is that the technocrats who are supposed to lead us in mitigating Climate Change and Global Warming are busy Conferencing. If they are not in Rio, they will be in Durban, Geneva, Tokyo, New York or in London.
National Youth Forum on a Mission to interrogate the agenda of the Presidential Candidates on Youth and Environment If there is nothing happening in these Towns, they will create one local solution and converge at some posh Hotel in Naivasha or the South Coast. That is their way of fighting Climate Change and Global Warming.
This is so depressing because, change will NEVER come through Conferencing and Town Hopping. We must put our minds to work and soil our hands in action. Only then will we compete at whatever level.
We have become a Nation of Techno-Conference Officers. We have all options at finger tips and we talk like Bees in Action. The only element we are missing is the tasking bit and converting all this talk into action.
I have always said this, and for effect, I will repeat the same; the kind of money we spend Globe Trotting and Conferencing is enough to repair our Roads and mitigate against the dusty emissions that is choking our neighbourhoods and in the process, suffocating us to death; Cancer.
The kind of money we spend Globe Trotting and Conferencing is enough to buy seedlings and give the same to Kenyans for planting. This will mitigate on the Tree Cover we keep complaining about.
The kind of money we spend Globe Trotting and Conferencing is enough to put up modern waste recycling plants that will help sort the menace that is waste all over Kenya.
The kind of money we spend Globe Trotting and Conferencing is enough to set up modern medical facilities that can become rapid response units to mitigate against the opportunistic ailments that develop as a result to poor waste management.
Komarock Canal, a product of The Clean Kenya Campaign Again, look at a Town like Nairobi. We have a population of slightly above 4 million people generating slightly above 2,400 tonnes of waste per day. Now, the City Council of Nairobi, the people whose primary responsibility is to manage the waste we generate, have all gone to sleep.
How did Dandora develop to the current monster we are all talking about? Someone at the Council must have slept on the job. Instead of the Department of Environment waking up to this reality and help address the problem, they have seen this as a milch cow.
They have chosen to contract 20 Garbage Collection Trucks at Kshs 40 million per month instead of buying their own Fleet of vehicles. Is this prudent management of Public Funds? I bet not. Kshs 40m can give us 4 new Garbage Trucks every Month and in 10 short Months, we will be having 40 such Trucks across the 8 Divisions and waste collection will surely improve.
But tell this to the mandarins at the Department and you instantly become their enemy. If telling them the truth is painful, we will make sure we tell them more such truths to wake them up from their slumber.
The Department of Environment at the City Council of Nairobi must be told in no uncertain terms that shifting waste from all corners of Nairobi to Dandora is NOT Waste Management. We expect better results from this team, and we are willing to continue working with them to ensure that Nairobi regains her lost Glory.
A bunch of a few fellows serving their own self interest cannot sit on our way to making Kenya Clean. If this Team is rudderless the way they are, they must give way, or they must be forced out.
Nairobi is the Capital City of Kenya and we cannot allow her to sink this low. Please look at the enclosed photos, all taken in Nairobi;
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If you like this, crown it. If you do not, sign this petition to have the Director of Environment at the City Council of Nairobi removed and redeployed to less strenuous tasks; http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/removing-the-director-of-environment-at-ccn-from-office.html
Odhiambo T Oketch
Executive Director,
The Clean Kenya Campaign- TCKC,
Tel; 0724 365 557,
Email; komarockswatch@yahoo.com
Tough Brains at Work...Following the Trash
Charle and Lorna from EcoPost with Oto and Sungu in a Brainstorming Session at our offices yesterday
The Jitihadi Youth Group Team with Oto at The Clean Kenya Campaign.
Tough Brains at work; Whitney, Cassie, Sungu, Oto, Waihenya, Mr. Copple, Mrs Copple, a Level Staffer and Wangechi
Trainees will be instructed on how to make Fencing Posts from Waste- Courtesy of EcoPost
We can join hands in making this A Better World- Courstey of A better World/SOF-DI
Trainees will be instructed on how to make Wheel Barrow and Mkokoteni Wheels from waste. Ms Lorna Ruto, EcoPost Staffer, Mr. Charles Kalama and Mr. otieno Sungu holding the wheels.
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