When Africans couldn't relieve themselves in Nairobi toilets

Nairobi County’s public toilet along Koinange Street. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Five years ago, Adrian Kamotho Njenga moved to the Environmental and Land Court in a bid to compel road authorities and county governments to construct public toilets along the country’s highways.

According to Njenga, these institutions had violated Article 42 of the Constitution that entitles every Kenyan to a clean and healthy environment. He stated that sanitation is a right of every citizen since “responding to a call of nature is an inevitable human process for which citizens have entirely no control.”