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8 held in slum protest against piling garbage

Protestors at Mburu Gichua road. They claimed the county's environment department has not collected garbage in Bondeni Estate for two months now. [Harun Wathari, Standard]

Residents of Bondeni Estate blocked Mburu Gichua Road for hours to protest failure by the county administration to collect garbage.

The residents dumped mountains of garbage on the busy road that leads to Lake Nakuru National Park, disrupting traffic before police moved in to disperse them using tear gas.

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