A section of Kiang'ombe and Athena estates residents have applauded a local macadamia nuts company for the clean up exercises it has been carrying out in the area recently.
The residents led by Komu Sub-Chief Joseph Njoroge have said that Jungle Nuts Company has brought environmental transformation in various low-life Thika estates by cleaning up garbage that residents had grappled with for many years.
The residents further lauded the company after it emerged that it is helping in a street lighting project that is already underway in Kiang'ombe and neighbouring Kiganjo estates.
"We are very much delighted by Jungle Nuts Foundation for the environmental clean up that they have been carrying out in this area because residents now can breathe fresh air. For the last few months they have been coming here on regular basis and tonnes of garbage that scattered everywhere here have reduced," said Njoroge on Wednesday.
He added: "Helping install street lights is also a very positive move because even my work as an administrator will ease a bit as cases of insecurity will go down."
Mary Wangari, a landlord in Kiang'ombe says that the clean up have seen the number of tenants looking for rental houses in the estate rise.
"The dirt that was in this estate some few months ago kept many tenants away preferring other relatively cleaner estates but Jungle Foundation has helped us make the estate a bit attractive for tenants and now they are coming in," said Wangari.
Michael Wang'ombe who has been living in the estate for the past two years, say that life in the estate was deplorable before the heightened clean up campaign by Jungle Nuts.
"I was thinking of relocating to a neighbouring estate which is a bit cleaner because my children are young and vulnerable to dirt but I've since shelved that idea because things are changing for the better," he said.