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For Dr Faridah Hussein Were, a University of Nairobi lecturer, it is a race against time to have paints containing toxic heavy metal, lead, phased out from the country.
The lecturer in the university’s Chemistry Department and a research scientist is emphatic that lead paints should not be on sale in Kenya as they are exposing many children and adults to devastating impact of lead poisoning and yet there are safer, more viable alternatives.
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