On environment, Nema has let Kenyans down

NAIROBI: Owino Uhuru village in Changamwe, Mombasa County, is a hurting village. The village's mud-walled houses sport rotten iron sheet roofs, abject poverty is evident everywhere but the most touching thing is that children, adults and even livestock, have skin ulcers and other ailments that are a result of exposure to heavy metal, specifically Lead.

Lead is a metal that finds its way into the body through inhalation, water and soil contamination. Lead weakens individuals by wearing down the calcium in the body, thus causing breathing problems, skin cancers, miscarriages, deformities, mental disabilities, lung and kidney complications as well as anaemia.