[PHOTOS] Nairobi downtown's garbage, filth slowly creeping back

For the past two days, downtown streets in Nairobi's Central Business (CBD) have been littered with spilt and uncollected garbage.

The mess which is visibly seen in the early morning hours suggest negligence of the casual workers meant to be sweeping the streets.

Also the some of the litter bins have big holes that don't hold the garbage once they are thrown inside.

The bins, although not enough, have been placed at strategic points in the CBD especially Avenue and a few selected streets included Wabera, Muindi Mbingu and Tom Mboya.

Along the streets, the spilt uncollected garbage also indicates the ' bad' behaviour of city residents including hawkers who litter anywhere especially during night hours.

In the Financial Year 2019-20, City Hall had allocated Sh18 million to purchase and install 4,000 litter bins across the city but on the ground things are different.

Last month, MCAs protested over the uneven distribution of county staff attached in various wards to clean and collect piling garbage.

In May, the Nairobi Metropolitan Services announced it would engage additional casual labourers in a bid to improve the deplorable state of the capital.

The casual labourers were to be engaged through the Environment Directorate to undertake manual jobs aimed at enhancing aesthetic value across four regions in Nairobi.

The regions include Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western.

The Northern region includes Starehe, Kamkunji, Mathare and Makadara sub counties while the Southern region consists of Dagoretti, North- Dagoretti, Dagoretti South, Kibra and Langata sub counties.

Embakasi North, Central, East, West and South are part of the Eastern region while Westlands, Ruaraka, Kasarani and Roysambu will be part of the Western region.

The duration of the contract will be on a short-term basis as per the Labour laws of Kenya.

Making the matter worse, the legislator lamented that the assembly has been passing the budget for litter bins to be installed across the county but the wards have not received any.

In May, the Nairobi Metropolitan Service announced it would engage additional casual labourers in a bid to improve the deplorable state of the capital.

The casual labourers were to be engaged through the Environment Directorate to undertake manual jobs aimed at enhancing aesthetic value across four regions in Nairobi.

Edited by D Tarus