Community split over lead factory in Naivasha

The newly opened Eco Solution battery assembly plant in Nyamathi Naivasha which has split area residents over its operations. Some residents are for the plant while a group of experts have dismissed a NEMA report that sanctioned the lead smelting factory. [Pix By Antony Gitonga/STANDARD]

Nakuru,Kenya: The opening of a multi-million battery assembly factory in Naivasha has split residents in the backdrop of reports of the negative effects of lead in a community in Mombasa.

Residents of Nyamathi where the factory is located have fallen out with technocrats over the lead smelting company.