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How John Michuki clean-up labour blossomed into a spectacular city park

Once a dumpsite where mechanics pitched tent, new green space gives a cool appeal to the grey Nairobi River waters.

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When you cross the recently-paved road and into John Michuki Memorial Park, you leave the city behind and are transported into an alternate Nairobi. A Nairobi that aspires to regain its glory as the green city in the sun. The buildings on Kijabe Street, with their vehicles parked outside and the shops selling bathroom fittings and books, give way to the lush greens of the recently-reclaimed park. The 26-acre Michuki Park, which sits between Kijabe Street and Kipande Road and straddles Nairobi River, has just been given a new lease of life.

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