The garbage collection site at Olympic estate in Kibera was cleaned on Friday, three days after residents held protests.
Residents and business operators in the area had held a protest demanding the relocation of the Olympic garbage collection site claiming that it was a threat to their health and it had caused lack of water for a period of one month.
On Friday morning Nairobi City County workers arrived at the garbage collection site together with workers form the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company and cleaned the dumping site rewarding the efforts of residents led by Juliet Ochieng’ the chairperson of Olympic Maisonette.
Despite the cleaning, residents are still far from satisfied as they are still accusing the Nairobi City County of incompetence in handling garbage collection in the area.
Usafi Initiative youth group claims that garbage collection is supposed to be done twice a week but the dirt had accumulated there for more than three months.
“The vehicle assigned to do the collection is currently working at Lang’ata, so we are forced to rent a lorry from Beads Contractor for Sh1,500," said one member of the Usafi Initiative youth group.
Olympic residents now want a lasting solution to be found saying they have been affected by lack of clean water for more than a month.
According to some residents the water which was pumped on Thursday was dirty due to faulty pipes that pass though the garbage collection site
Sarang'ombe Location chief, Danvers Mugire has requested the residents not to dump dirt at the site and has placed two policemen to man the area as the site is currently under construction.
The residents have been promised by Nairobi Water Sewerage Company that the faulty pipes would be replaced to ensure that water problem is resolved.