Vehicles being washed at Kisumu Dunga beach. [Photo/Courtesy]
Principal Secretary in the State Department of Environment and Regional Development Authorities, Charles Sankuli has called on Kisumu residents to care for the environment in-order to dwindle the current levels of pollution in the county.
He said this on Wednesday as he spoke to journalists in Kisumu County Commissioners’ Offices.
Sankuli had visited the county to meet a team environmental policy implementers who briefed him on environmental developments around Lake Victoria.
He said that the national government was doing its best to clear water hyacinth from Lake Victoria.
“We are using machines, biological means, manual removal by man and also using the weed to produce energy as a means to eradicate it,” he said.
He nonetheless warned the residents from washing their vehicles in the Lake and throwing waste in the lake as they had lethal effects to aquatic life and also people who used the water for domestic purposes.
Kisumu County Commissioner Mohammed Maalim, who also spoke, assured the city residents of heightened security ahead of the Ramadhan celebrations.
He said his team will make day and night patrols as move to boost security. Commissioner Maalim however condemned the terror attack that claimed several lives in the United Kingdom, Manchester.
He termed the perpetrators of the acts as cowards with an aim of dividing the Muslim community.