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Kidero seeks joint venture with Army, NYS in handling Nairobi garbage

Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero (centre) during his visit to the Dondora dump site yesterday. Nairobi county government will extend the life of the dump site as a short-term solution to managing city garbage. [PHOTO: DAVID NJAAGA]

KENYA: Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero will from Monday next week meet with engineers from the Ministry of Works, the Army and the National Youth Service to work on modalities of prolonging the life of Dandora dump site for another five years.

The governor plans to have the dump site, which takes one million tonnes of waste annually, compacted so as to create space for more garbage before relocating it to Ruai.

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