Rongai is drowning in raw sewer and garbage

Any visitor to Rongai - better known as ‘Diaspora’ - or even driving on Magadi Road at night cannot miss the waft of a foul smell. You would be forgiven to think that the place is home to a mega sewer treatment plant. Seasonal rivers of filth here flow undisturbed even during the dry season.

But with all the growth that Ongata Rongai boasts of, nobody would imagine that there is no sewer system in place. The drainage system is in a deplorable state due to garbage. Desperate landlords and residents are using the cover of darkness to empty raw sewer into the flood drainages by the road. These furrows eventually empty into the rivers that pass through the Nairobi National Park; some into huge ones such as Mbagathi River.