Kiboko oil leak exposed bad job, affected many people

An open tank containing a mixture of water and oil extracted from trenches at the Kiboko oil spill site in 2019. [File, Standard]

One morning in March 2019, in a remote village in Kibwezi, Makueni County, about 160 kilometers from Nairobi, residents awoke to find their main source of water contaminated and smelling of fuel.

The water they relied on for daily use and farming was no longer usable, sending the entire village into a panic.