Mashimoni landlords in Kibera have been urged to educate their tenants on environmental sanitation to keep the living environment and premises clean.
Speaking on Friday afternoon in the Mashimoni village Kibera, Riverton Kinywa, one of the heads of the Nyumba Kumi initiative program in the area, said that this will prevent the residents from getting infected with waterborne diseases such as cholera.
“Most of the residents dump garbage carelessly and this makes it hard for the Nairobi County environment sector to clean up,’’ said Kinywa.
He said most of the areas, especially in major interior parts of the village, are dirty and this is due to lack of formal education from landlords to tenants on the need to keep the environment clean.
“As observed, many landlords are after money, they do not want to know the environmental status to their tenants, and it is the responsibility of every landlord to ensure his / her estate meets the required sanitation standards or else the estate will be closed down if the living environment is not kept clean,’’ Kinywa added.
He warned any resident or tenant against dumping waste in undesignated areas and said that they would face the law.
He called on the landlords to provide their tenants with enough big garbage bags so as to ease work of dumping wastes as this will make the sanitation authorities collect garbage easily from from designated areas.