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Nairobi County deploys 2,500 youths to Sub-counties ahead of the El Nino rains

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Casuals hired as sanitation workers with their tools at Uhuru Park after Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja launched the start of their contract on September 10,2023. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

A team of 2,500 youths who were employed by Nairobi County to help in unclogging drainages and clearing bushes ahead of predicted El Nino rains have been deployed to the Sub-Counties.

The team under the environment department will be working around the clock to ensure that all the drainages in the city wards are free of wastes that are likely to block waterways.

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