Murkomen slams Nairobi County for dumping trash at Stima Plaza

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has condemned an incident where Nairobi County Government dumped garbage at Kenya Power premises.

This comes a day after the two warrying parties held a meeting chaired by Head of Public Service Felix Koskei, and quashed their differences.

While visiting the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters in Kiambu, Murkomen termed the move as ‘primitive’ and ‘unacceptable’.

“On the incident of dumping of waste at KPMC offices first of all that is primitive that is unacceptable there is a consensus in the country that that was the most primitive thing anyone can ever do and we actually condemn that behaviour in the highest terms possible I don't know even the words I can be able to use,” Murkomen told the media.

Murkomen says such an act endangers the health and safety of the public as they risk catching diseases from the darbage or blocked sewers.

“The County Government of Nairobi has the responsibility of keeping everybody in Nairobi safe. They also have a very important responsibility of public health of making sure that we are living in a country that is safe from diseases you know, you come and dump waste so that people can get diseases like cholera and so forth that was totally uncouth it's uncalled for it is unacceptable,” he added.

Murkomen has also asserted the role played by the police, saying they were the first responders. He has also disclosed that some county staff were arrested and vehicles detained.

“From day one, the National Police Service responded. Perhaps we do not do the publicity as it should be but at a very highest level there was a report that was made from the KPLC that led to the arrest of some of the officers from the base in Nairobi for questioning and also some of their lorries have been detained in the police station,” he added.

His visit to the DCI comes hours after the state prosecutor directed the DCI boss to investigate illegal dumping of waste and sewer system disruption at KPLC premises a day after Governor Johnson Sakaja said parties agreed