Njoro residents who use Njoro River for a source of livelihood have been warned against abetting river pollution among other water resources environmental destruction activities.
An official from National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) Vitalis Tanui, while addressing parents, pupils and school management board officials at Ndarugu Primary School during a prize giving day on Friday, observed that despite prolonged efforts by environmental stakeholders to rehabilitate the local water resource, some river resource users in the area were adamantly exercising environmental degradation activities like water pollution through careless harvesting of water, using animals, solid waste and human waste dumping.
NEMA warned that the authority was closely monitoring environmental protection programmes underway in the area and would soon start taking stern measures to up the environmental protection goals.
“We should be warned that NEMA is closely monitoring environmental protection programmes initiated by several stakeholders in this area. We will soon catch up with those who are not keen on observing environmental protection goals,” said Tanui.
He added that millions of money and other resources had been used in efforts to rehabilitate the river for the benefit of residents and Nakuru County region as a whole through research, activism, community education, tree planting and river cleaning for the last ten years, hence it was important for residents to uphold integrity in environmental protection by exercising responsibility when using natural water resources.