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Cover your nose; this is Nairobi

Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja at an illegal garbage dumping spot. [File, Standard]

A man staggers in front of me with a sack of potatoes heavy on his shoulders. At the gate of Wakulima Market, he almost falls as he steps over a pile of rotting tomatoes and cabbages.

When he finally eases the sack onto the ground, I ask him about the environmental conditions around him.

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