Thika, Githurai and Kiambaa towns have the biggest number of careless and illegal dumpers among the Kiambu County urban centres, Kiambu County Director of Environment Andrew Kimani has said.
Kimani has also said that many arrests on careless dumping amounting to more than 10 daily are also effected in these three towns.
Speaking in Thika Town on Friday to various environmental stakeholders, Kimani said that the Kiambu County Environmental Act, which he said many term as punitive will continue to be implemented to the letter to ensure that all the urban areas in the county remain clean.
"Since last year, Thika, Kiambaa and Githurai have continued to dominate the list as some of the towns where our environment enforcement officers arrest more than 10 people daily for illegal or careless dumping," said Kimani.
"We are not going to relent on this and we are asking residents and businesspeople in these towns to comply with our environment regulations to be on the safe side. Dumping waste in undesignated area attracts a fine of between Sh100,000 and Sh150,000 or an imprisonment of a period not less than six months," he added.
Kimani said that the county government had contracted and licensed several private garbage collection companies to collect domestic waste while the county government garbage collection trucks concentrated on industrial, commercial and institutional wastes.
"Nobody has got an excuse to dump waste haphazardly. You can be sure that if you comply with our environmental regulations you will never rub shoulders with the county government," Kimani said.
He noted that Thika had lost its former glory as one of the cleanest towns in Kenya but promised that the industrial town will reclaim that glory soon.