More than 2,800 if the youth and women in the Kiandutu slums have engaged in a garbage collection and cleanup process.
According to Kiambu women’s representative Annah Nyokabi, the Jubilee government is doing this in determination to fulfill one of its manifesto agendas that youth and women empowerment takes the initiative to upgrade the slums with the help of the National Youth Service.
Nyokabi spoke on Saturday as she toured the Kiandutu slums, saying that the county government has already noted the great improvement in matter of security. She also lauded the Nyumba Kumi chairman Paul Njomo for a job well done.
Nyokabi said that the Nyumba Kumi Initiative is a great pillar in security matters in Kiandutu and that she was pleased to learn that more than 3,000 families have benefited directly from the contract.
These improvements, she said, had thus created employment which is a key essential project of the Jubilee government.
Nyokabi revealed that the government has set aside funds to build an abolition block and clinic which will greatly boost the health status in Kiandutu slums.
She added that most of the cleaners would be taken to school to undertake savings and disaster management courses which would positively impact the slums in case of any disastrous scenario.
The law maker added that plans were underway for the construction of better roads and that security improvements would be made by building a police station in the slum.
Nyakobi has however extended her gratitude to the residents for welcoming her, believing that Kiambu would become a better place to be and insecurity could be a thing of the past.