Residents of Nairobi may be staring calamity if the state of affairs at the county fire station offices are not redressed.
The revelation comes after a county assembly committee delivered a damning report on the state of things at Nairobi’s giant fire station.
The report tabled in the Assembly by the Culture and Community Services committee has revealed the majority of workers at the station are interns. The report revealed the station is well equipped with fire engines, but grossly understaffed.
It is shocking given that fire outbreaks are a constant threat to Nairobians, most of whom know the pain of losing loved ones and property in an inferno.
“Most of the personnel are interns and on attachment basis. The quad bikes that were purchased and allocated to the 17 sub-counties were vandalised due to poor management,” the report reads. The 19-member committee chaired by Woodley MCA Mwangi Njihia established that the facility is dilapidated and thus recommended a raft of measures.
“The health centre urgently requires emergency and medical technicians and nurses to maintain ambulances, repair and addition of quad bikes to access narrow roads in slums,” the committee proposes.
It also recommends hiring and deployment of 200 more firemen to all 17 sub-counties. Also, “County Public Service Board to advertise the position of the director responsible for disaster which is expressly formed in the Disaster and Emergency Act 2015 section 4(2) and the County”.
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