Kisumu environmental officer Simon Asunga has challenged Kisumu's Manyatta Estate residents to stop using 'flying toilets' saying the act is unfriendly to the environment.
Speaking to this writer in Manyatta Estate on Tuesday, officer Asunga challenged the locals to embrace using latrines discouraging usage of flying toilets noting that it was unhealthy and not safe for them.
The environmentalist said that some places around estates used nearby bushes as latrines, making environment filthy and unfit for human stay. According to Asunga, the act is a poor and unhealthy behaviour challenging locals to embrace toilets usage.
“Let’s be custodians of healthy environment by avoiding dumping rubbish anyhow and also embrace usage of toilets. By keeping our environment clean and embracing toilet usage, we would have curbed lots of diseases caused by filthy environment,” said Asunga.
His other counterpart Eunita Odhiambo also emphasised on importance of clean environment stating that dirty and filthy stagnant water around estates also needed to be let running.
Odhiambo noted that according to their survey in Manyatta Estate, there are a few toilets in the estate shared by so many residents which he said are not safe for them.
She further challenged landlords to help reduce misuse of environment by building toilets in their rental houses' compounds to reduce the act.
Manyatta resident Alice Omollo also welcomed the sentiments stating that the environment was so filthy asking fellow residents to mind environment and encourage toilet usage in places they stay in.
According to Omollo, locals sensitisation needed to be done on importance of living in clean environments and ways to stop littering their surroundings.