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Subukia man on solo mission to conserve the environment

Isaac Mwangi uses waste to make compost manure and has planted various vegetation to trap gas emissions from the cemetery. [PHOTOS: BONIFACE THUKU/STANDARD]

NAKURU: Smoke fills the air at Subukia sub-county main cemetery accompanied by sorrowful songs and drum beats as mourners lay their loved ones to rest.

Bereaved families are later seen leaving the cemetery one by one and that’s when you see the middle aged man at the center of the cemetery holding a folk, spade and a sack busy digging in between the graves.

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