The public health department in Kikuyu Sub-County has put on notice people whose homes and business premises do not have toilets.
In Kikuyu, the department has drawn a list of all offenders and, according to the local public health officers, they will be charged under the public health act.
Public notices pinned in various markets indicate that anyone who will not have put up the facilities in their homes in the next two weeks will be prosecuted.
According to Alice Kinuthia, the sub-county public health officer, department officials are moving around the area trying to identify homes without toilets so that their owners could be dealt with according to the law.
She said her department was also cracking down on public eating places where the owners routinely flout public health requirements which put to risk people’s health.
Kinuthia said all employees in local hotels and bars must possess updated medical certificates and the premises must be inspected by public health personnel from time to time.
The public health official urged plot owners in Ruaka, Wangige, Kabete and Kikuyu trading centres to collect all their garbage in bins which the county government had provided.