Kajiado County is benighted in ‘darkness’

Erratic power supply and poor sewer or drainage system in Ongata Rongai, Ngong and Kiserian is curtailing economic growth. It is also choking and battering residents who are already going through a perennial traffic jam, poor infrastructure and dirty markets. Ongata Rongai and Ngong are serene settlement areas; fantastic places to live in but the leaders here are corrupt.

The county government of Kajiado (led by Governor Nkendienye and Senator Mositet) has completely forgotten these prime and vote-rich areas. The residents have promised to vote them off in 2017. Ongata Rongai and Ngong are serene towns but lack of clean water, poor infrastructure, erratic power supply and poor sewer services not forgetting extremely congested dirty markets will cost them a lot in 2017. The drainage systems are in a deplorable state due to garbage. The lack of a sewer system gives businessmen, schools, universities and property owners an exorbitant task of engaging exhauster services to pump out sewage waste weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. A truck charges between Sh10, 000 to Sh15, 000 depending on the amount it empties. Some property owners after incurring a high cost engaging exhauster services, have found an alternative of pumping sewage into trenches leading to the drainage system by the roads. This is done when the septic tanks get filled up.