Environmental activists have threatened legal action against the Mombasa administration over the cholera outbreak that left two dead.
The county's negligence led to the deaths,
Active Environmental Team said, adding it
sounded the alarm two weeks earlier.
“Nobody took any action. We cannot allow our people to go on dying because of a simple thing. Containing garbage is the county's work,” the group’s chief coordinator Ben Wemali said on phone on Tuesday.
He further faulted Hassan Joho's administration for setting up transfer stations for garbage in residential areas.
“This should not be the case. After rains, flies are all over and liquid from garbage heaps mixes with with sewage and then piped water, causing contamination,” he said.
“We will not allow people to play with lives after failing to clean Mombasa.”
Wemali said the "county is not working on the clock” and “cholera is killing because there is no serious action”.
The National Environment Management Authority said it could not handle the matter as it is a devolved function.
County secretary Francis Thoya said cleanup started Saturday in Liwatoni, Buxton, Mbaraki and Mwember Tayari.
Environment executive Godfrey Nato said on Monday that they were developing a five-year County Integrated Development Plan which will include waste management.
Thoya said internal challenges and lack of proper working equipment are the reasons garbage piles.
Health executive Hazel Koitaba has said food vending was banned and cholera patients isolated.
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