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daniele

Inter-religious Committee For The Dandora Anti-Dump Site Campaign
P.O Box 47714 00100 G.P.O
Nairobi, Kenya.
Mobile: 0733702972/0724261751
Email: comboni at korogocho.org .

NEWS!!!

11^th October 2006
Kibwana directs NEMA and City Council to act on Dandora Dumpsite.

Environment minister Professor Kibutha Kibwana has directed
the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and Nairobi City
Council to prepare a programme for relocating the Dandora Municipal Dump
Site and report back to him in three months.  The minister was
speaking on 11th

October at St. John Catholic Church, Korogocho when he addressed a delegation from Inter-religious Committee For The Dandora Anti-Dump Site Campaign.

He said that the dumpsite posed a serious health threat to over one million people and this was evident from the high number of chemists around the area. "Nobody really wants to live there. Everybody agrees that we must move the dumpsite. Even the young people at the dumpsite have told me that they want the site moved but they need to be a accommodated in the process" said the minister who had earlier visited the infamous dumpsite and talked to scavengers working there. The Makueni Member of Parliament who is also acting lands minister, revealed that a multicultural committee of different government ministries has been set up to come up with sustainable solution to the Dandora Dumpsite problem involving even the local community.
" A cabinet paper is also being prepared to establish short, medium and long term solutions to the Dandora Dumpsite problem and solid waste management in the whole country."

But addressing the press soon after the meeting, Nairobi deputy mayor Ferdinand Waititu who had earlier apologised to the affected residents over the dumpsite said that the Dandora Dumpsite will continue to operate since the council does not have an alternative. " We don't want to create another dumpsite somewhere else " He asserted.

Speaking at the same forum, Fr. Daniel Moschetti of St. John Catholic church, Korogocho and Erastus Muthee from the Dandora Pastors Fellowship said that the Inter-religious Committee For The Dandora Anti-Dump Site Campaign are concerned about the security and health problems associated with the dumpsite and have a dream to develop recreational facilities, vocational training centres and health centres at the location, defending the rights to have a right job for the scavengers.

NEMA director general, Muusya Mwinzi, Assistant town clerk Geoffrey Katsoley and Embakai District Officer Adan Noor Muhhamed also attended the function.


Story by Oluoch Japheth.