Environment Court declares Eastleigh sewer public infrastructure

Flooded sewage along Eastleigh 8th Street in Nairobi caused by broken sewer lines, following heavy rains experience in the city, on Wednesday, December 15 2021. [File, Standard]

A decades-old sewer line serving multiple properties along Muratina Street in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area has been declared public infrastructure by the Environment and Land Court.

In a judgment delivered by Justice Noor Kullow, the court sided with the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company against tenant and businessman John Kithiu, who had argued that the sewer line was a private easement within the property he occupies.