Wednesday 19 September 2012

[wanabidii] RE: Clean ups; Are they effective?



Thank you John.

It is gratifying to note that the vested interests will never sleep easy. And it is good to  note that you have had a similar case in South Africa.

We have smoked them out of their lair and we will not relent.

In our meeting with the City Council of Nairobi and the Nairobi Market Traders Society yesterday at City Hall, I saw lethargy first hand, not that they will scare us, No, we will simply run them out of Town and out of office.

Sample this; The Cash Trapped Council has only 8 working Garbage Collection Trucks and they are spending Kshs 40 Million every month to hire 20 Private Garbage Collection Trucks! And yet, we do not see what these 20 Garbage Trucks are doing for the residents of Nairobi!

Is this prudent management of Public Resources?

I bet no. Because, you can spend the Kshs 40 Million every Month to buy 4 well equipped and Modern Garbage Collection Trucks and in 12 Months, you will have 48 well Equipped Garbage Collection Trucks. The rest of the Years, your wage Bill on Garbage Collection will go down drastically and you shall have achieved two crucial things; saved the Council of some Money and made the work of the Environment Officers easier.

But who cares?

Kenyans must hence join in and demand that we see action, not conferencing on waste issues. The ammount of money being wasted on conferencing can make great Transformation for Kenya.

But the sad reality on the ground is, even with UNEP being Headquartered in Nairobi, we have nothing to show for this. They are not offering leadership on environmental issues as they ought to do. This is pathetic and UNEP should be removed from Kenya and taken some other place.

With this kind of inept leadership, we cannot definitely realize the objects of Vision 2030.

I will be hosted at 8pm on Friday at All in the Family Programme at the Family TV and I will talk about this careless attitude we all seem to have towards ourselves and in Public Service.

Let us all work for a Clean Kenya as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50.

Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,
The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC
The Clean Kenya Campaign is an Initiative of The KCDN Kenya.



--- On Wed, 9/19/12, John Kieser <John.Kieser@plasticssa.co.za> wrote:

From: John Kieser <John.Kieser@plasticssa.co.za>
Subject: RE: Clean ups; Are they effective?
To: "odhiambo okecth" <komarockswatch@yahoo.com>, "KCA" <kca_main@yahoogroups.com>, "Kenya Community" <kc-ab@yahoogroups.ca>, "Kenya Canada" <kenya-can@yahoogroups.com>, "Kenya Club" <kenyaclub@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "Guardian" <letters@guardian.co.uk>, "Jaluo.com" <jaluo@jaluo.com>, "Kenva" <KENVA@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 2:37 AM

Dear Odhiambo.

 

This question is one that will disappear with time as you start showing a positive tract record on the basis of your enthusiasm.  I answered that same question some time ago and I hope you can learn something out of our experience in South Africa. 

"Municipalities consist of people who looks at the actions of their citizens for issues of concern on a local level.  A clean environment is one of the great needs of all of us.  Local authorities also realise that a clean environment does not just constitute a happier citizenry but also supports tourism and  shows that they are working.  Municipalities consist of humans who also want to live in a city/town to be proud upon.  Central and provincial government is also in the same league."

Carry on with the hard work.  You seem to have the same problem that we have experienced but it has been eroded during the years of our efforts.  (It does re-occur every now especially if there is a "new broom" and they see the issue of cleanups as a cash cow).  I had an e-mail bantering with a new ogre this year during this year's International Coastal Cleanup and you are refer to them in your letter and these are individuals who believe more in cosmetics and to some degree green washing.  Being on social media seems to be more important to them than getting the work done.  Also the amount of people that use the "monster" of littering as a mean to make money out of has also shown its head again.  They can create the veneer that a company is being responsible for a better environment.

Cleanups do work!  This gets strengthened as you persist in your actions.

 

John Kieser

Environmental Manager - Coastal Provinces

International Coastal Cleanup Coordinator
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From: odhiambo okecth [mailto:komarockswatch@yahoo.com]
Sent: 19 September 2012 07:08 AM
To: KCA; Kenya Community; Kenya Canada; Kenya Club
Cc: Guardian; Jaluo.com; Kenva
Subject: Clean ups; Are they effective?

 

 

 

Friends,

The Clean Kenya Campaign
has elevated the question of Municipal Solid Waste Management, or its absence, to new levels in Kenya.

We have sent many Journeymen scampering in all direction with our bold and well grounded approach to the question of Waste Management through our combined approach of Awareness and Clean-up Campaigns.

Now, I have heard this tired thinking from some quarters for some while now; Are Clean-ups effective? And I want to respond to these journeymen in very clear terms- Clean-ups are very effective.

Now, the team that has been asking this tired question are technocrats who have all the means at their disposals and yet, they have failed miserably to manage our waste across Kenya.

The other team that has been asking this question are the perpetual conference goers. They do nothing except hope from one conference to another, just to talk.

At The Clean Kenya Campaign, and with minimal resources, we have been able to host meaningful Consultative Forums before and after all our Clean-ups. In these Forums, we discuss real issues that affect us. No theories like the conference goers. And the result of this has been the massive turn outs by Kenyans in all the Clean-ups that we host.

For the journeymen, they wake up in the morning and head for a Clean-up without any prior consultation with the people and they expect to see Kenyans joining with them. They have resources that can be used for mass mobilization, but they opt to print T-Shirts and find any other convenient means of skimming Government Funds in the names of hosting a Clean-up.

Definitely, this can never work. Instead of mobilizing Kenyans to know why we need to keep our Towns and Neighbourhoods Clean, they are busy looking for how best to spend funds in areas that have no bearing to the actual Clean-ups and Awareness Campaign. They spend no funds in Awareness Campaigns and then they turn around to ask this tired question; Are Clean-ups effective?

We also have the question of commitment. How can you succeed with a process you are not committed to? The Clean Kenya Campaign Team is committed to working for a Clean Kenya, and we have proved that a Clean Kenya is possible. But some technocrats who are mandated to keep our Country Clean are not committed to the oath of their office.

If one is not committed to a course, it will never succeed. This is the scenario that has been obtaining from many of our Councils. There has been no commitment on the part of the top leadership to ensure that Clean-ups are a success story. However, look at what is taking place in Kisumu now?

The people of Kisumu under the leadership of KICOCEN have taken to the Clean ups as their way of supporting a Council that is proving that it is committed to keeping Kisumu Clean. In Kisumu, their is commitment right from His Worship the Mayor Cllr Sam Okello, the Town Clerk Chris Rusana and the Director of Environment John Sande.

This team have even opened a Facebook Page- kisumu environ and their commitment and dedication to keeping Kisumu Clean is paying off through the massive turn outs in the clean-ups.

We have also seen commitment and support from the Town Clerks in Mombasa and Eldoret. We are now seeing some enthusiasm in Nairobi from the Town Clerk, the Deputy Town Clerk and the Assistant Town Clerk Reforms. But we are yet to see any commitment from the Director of Environment.

So, how can a bunch that has never been committed to Clean-ups, never factored any serious budgetary allocation to power the Clean-ups, and never tried even in any one day to mobilize for a Clean-up be the judges that conference with this tired thinking?

I would appreciate the question of how effective the Clean-ups are, if the process failed despite commitment and support. But this question coming from conference goers means very little to us.

Lastly, in Rwanda the Clean ups have been a resounding success. Do you think that the Clean-ups just happen by themselves? No. There is commitment and support right from the Presidency. I am yet to see this kind of commitment and support in Kenya to warrant these journeymen start the debate of hoe effective Clean-ups are.

I will be hosted at 8pm on Friday at All in the Family Programme at the Family TV and I will talk about this careless attitude we all seem to have towards ourselves and in Public Service.

Let us all work for a Clean Kenya as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50.


Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,

The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC

The Clean Kenya Campaign is an Initiative of The KCDN Kenya.



--- On Tue, 9/18/12, peter mathu <titimathu@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:


From: peter mathu <titimathu@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The report; Trash and Tragedy- Concern Worldwide
To: "odhiambo okecth" <komarockswatch@yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 8:52 PM

My friend i think those who will read this article especially the mostly concerned will wake from their deep SLEEP

Peter Mathu - Coach

 

 


From: odhiambo okecth <komarockswatch@yahoo.com>
To: newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
Cc: next_kenya@yahoogroups.com; NYSA <nysa1@googlegroups.com>; park-road-youth@googlegroups.com; PK <progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com>; ProgressiveMinds <ProgressiveMinds@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2012, 20:03
Subject: The report; Trash and Tragedy- Concern Worldwide

 

 

 

Friends,

I am forwarding this Report; Trash and Tragedy, to you with heavy heart.

It is a damning report of our incompetence, or rather, the incompetence of the Guest Lists who read these kind of reports. The sad reality is, these are people who are employed by the Government and the UN Agencies, not to come and read such damning reports, but to help us solve such issues.

How come, after several such reports, we are still converging to listen to more and more of the same, from the same Government and UN Officers whose failure we are living with?

Let this be the last report we are seeing on Waste and Garbage. Let us now converge the next time to look at the results of our actions; what we have initiated to remedy this sorry state.

Concern Worldwide and her Partners have done some tremendous work in documenting this massive failure on Leadership. We cannot live like this 50 Years into Independence and still proclaim at the roof tops our rights to self determination.

We cannot live like this and still have a Team of incompetent professionals managing the question of Waste Management in Kenya. It is annoying. It is very annoying when fellow Kenyans are living in such filth and we behave as if all is well.

No. Time has come when we must roll our sleeves and take head on the vested interest groups who have made us live like pigs. The good thing is, we have a Team of Technocrats in Government now, Men and Women who believe that a Clean Kenya at 50 is possible, and we are working with them to ensure that a Clean Kenya is achieved as a Transformative Agenda for our Motherland.

We at The Clean Kenya Campaign would like to work with all willing Kenyans to ensure that we sort this mess. The people who have brought us to this level must be ashamed of how their Professional Incompetence has killed many innocent Kenyans.

Shame on you for doing nothing for Mother Kenya. Shame on you for being a Vested Interest on this Trash and Tragedy befalling Kenyans and Mother Kenya.

I will be hosted at 8pm on Friday at All in the Family Programme at the Family TV and I will talk about this careless attitude we all seem to have towards ourselves and in Public Service.

Let us all work for a Clean Kenya as a Transformative Deliverable as we turn 50.


Odhiambo T Oketch,
Executive Director,

The Clean Kenya Campaign-TCKC

The Clean Kenya Campaign is an Initiative of The KCDN Kenya.



--- On Tue, 9/18/12, Ivy Ndiewo <ivy.ndiewo@concern.net> wrote:


From: Ivy Ndiewo <ivy.ndiewo@concern.net>
Subject: The report
To: "odhiambo okecth (komarockswatch@yahoo.com)" <komarockswatch@yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 7:16 AM

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