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MP raises red alert over sewage flow into rivers

Thika town MP Patrick Wainaina [Photo: Kamau Njoroge].

Thika town MP Patrick Wainaina has threatened to institute legal charges against National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and the Kiambu County Government over river pollution.

Wainaina claimed that the Kiambu County Government has been discharging raw sewerage into rivers Komo and Ndarugu despite thousands of residents living downstream depending on the rivers for water for domestic and irrigation purposes.

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