Lords of waste in Lunga Lunga slums are killing crucial Ngong River

Developers have to pay Sh500 for every truckload carted out of their sites. [Hudson Gumbihi, Standard]

Ngong River is slowly choking to death. Some enterprising slumlords are strangling life out of the river as they seek to create artificial plots for sale.

With just Sh10,000, you can own a piece of Lunga Lunga, a slum in Nairobi’s industrial area. But this is only for a season, and that is when the gods of flooding are...