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Wamalwa orders Coast Water Board to reconnect water

Water Cabinet Secretary Eugine Wamalwa has directed the Coast Water Board to connect water that it had disconnected for a week over debts. The outstanding bill for the entire Coast region is Sh1.2 billion.

Cabinet Secretary Ministry of water and Environment Eugen Wamalwa addresses the Media on the wrangles of Lake Victoria Basin Board wrangles in his office 21/10/15 PHOTO MOSES OMUSULA

The county governments had refused to pay insisting that the bills were inherited from the defunct councils. On Saturday the Cabinet secretary asked the Coast water board not to collect debts until proper consultation with the Transition Authority had been done.

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