The Nairobi dumpsite is one of the largest pit fills in the country and a close walk along the site will reveal heart-breaking scenes.
This month alone, four infant babies have been found in the dumping area with some being alive and others dead.
Shadrack Musyoka, who earns a living from the site, narrates of how his career has exposed him to traumatic scenes as he kept on sorting garbage at this visible city’s dumping site. He has worked in the site for over 20 years and incidentally, he has kept a log of the number of containers he has so far filled for sale to the city's recycling companies. Sadly, he has also been able to keep another list of harsh reality- the number of infants he stumbles over in the pit.
Musyoka clearly recalls and narrated of his being at the dumpsite early one morning.
“I had gone to the dumping site earlier than usual when I met a teacher walking by a nearby path. The teacher, on her way to school, heard a baby's cry and she listened keenly and carefully only to find a box with an infant. The madam was in a hurry for her lessons, so she handed over the baby to me. I took the baby to a nearby police, who contacted a local children’s home,'’ said the Musyoka.
He blamed the city girls who engage themselves in indecent acts of prostitution and also the men who neglect their wives who, without an alternative, dump the innocent infants at the scene.