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Cholera can never be controlled
here, not with the mounds of garbage dotting the streets. Take
Kaloleni for instance, this is where I live and nearby there is an
overflown dump site emitting pungent smell all over the area.
With the current rains going on, the predicament can't be explained
by mere words, in fact it seems like all the flies infesting the
municipality are being bred there.
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The Municipal council need to
hire serious firms to carry out garbage collecting and town cleaning
chores. Right now whoever is doing it, seems to be simply going
around piling mounds of garbage on our doorsteps, school gates and
market places.
Local authorities must step in to curb the current selling and
taking of local brews being peddled under dangerously filthy
conditions.
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Where I live such diseases like cholera
must definitely be the order of the day because all the rain water, sewage
and other waste fluids coming from the town drainage system flow down there.
Mind you, clean water supply is unheard off and people depend on streams or
river water for drinking and only a few of them bother to boil the water
before drinking.
Pit latrines are also major causes of disease outbreaks, because most of
these get filled up and people continue using them despite that. |
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The council had once issued
tenders to private firms to collect garbage from the municipality.
They briefly did it then stopped, so we are not sure what is going
on now. Besides, the garbage collection was also being done only in
special areas, concentrating only in the town centre, ignoring the
suburbs.
Then there is also this issue of failed drainage system in town.
The current rains are taking major unhygienic toll on the streets.
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