The Nairobi government has sued 68 landlords for discharging raw sewage into rivers, Environment executive Peter Kimori has said. Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company has also disconnected water supply to those landlords’ estate and blocked sewer lines discharging waste into rivers. “About 40 have been concluded and they [landlords] are now coming to City Hall for fresh connection to the main sewer line,” Environment executive Peter Kimori said. Kimori said residential flats built next to the Kirichwa Ndogo and Kirichwa Kubwa rivers — mostly on riparian land and way leaves — discharge raw sewage into the rivers. He did not reveal the identities of the landlords or the estates affected, but said most of them are in Dagoretti.

Source: The Star February 02, 2017 23:32 UTC