Nairobi residents are allergic to clean surroundings

Muthurwa market. If there was a trophy for those who care little about their environment, Nairobi residents would win it every week, nay every day, because nobody knows how to litter better than them.

Many years ago, I wrote that Nairobi is health risk and a tinderbox waiting to explode because of the haphazard ways in things are done. Several experts complained bitterly and said that I was giving Nairobi a bad name and that I did not paint the city in good light.

I fought the urge to respond that painting the city well, and even lighting it up was the job of the then City Council of Nairobi which I figured was light years behind in cleaning the city.