WHY MUWASCO TECHNICAL TEAM SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS WARRIORS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID 19

By Allan Wanjiku

Some Muwasco staff repairing the main pipe destroyed by a landslide at Kamaguta area

Even as government continues in its fight against Covid-19, a special group of technical staff at Muranga Water and Sanitation Company (Muwasco) has offered themselves to ensure steady supply of water which is an integral commodity in taming the pandemic.

Immediately after a landslide occurred at Kamaguta area destroying a main pipe that takes raw water to Muranga town and its environs, Muwasco Managing Director Engineer Daniel Nganga dispatched a team as team of dedicated staff to repair the pipe and after accessing the damage, they would have taken a week to repair it.

The main pipe destroyed by the landslide terminating the supply of water to Muranga town and its environs

However, with zeal determination and passion, the officers agreed that they would camp at the site and only come out after the work was done, they repaired the pipe for 24 hours, enduring the rain, hunger, cold while most of us reading this story were caressing our lovers probably due to the heavy rains during the night.

With rumbling stomachs as there was nowhere to buy food due to curfew, the team spared no efforts to ensure the main pipe has been repaired to ensure smooth supply of water without interruption as water was the only known remedy for combating the coronavirus pandemic.

“My officers agreed that they would spare no effort until the main pipe was repaired, it was not a walk in the park but we managed it after a whole night, all of us know the importance of water especially during this period and that is the spirit that informed us to forego resting with our families in our homes,” Engineer Nganga said.

Muwasco has been the leading water service provider from across the country with several water companies visiting the water firm to benchmark on how to connect water to household and how to avoid water wastage.

Its Managing Director as been serving as the Water Service Providers Association Chairperson and through his reign, the association has received accolades from the top government officials due to its efforts in sanitation and water connections.

Muranga Water and Sanitation Company (Muwasco) Managing Director Daniel Ng'ang'a (clapping) when visitors planted a tree at Muwasco offices in a past function. The visitors had visited the water firm to learn about the non revenue water. PHOTO BY KK PICTURE DESK

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BY Ndungu Gachane

Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro. he wants government to use the same vigour it used to reposes Ruai Land to probe how Kenyatta family got it land. PHOTO BY KK ONLINE NEWS PICTURE DESK 

The ‘Ruai land repossession’ has taken an ugly political twist after Deputy President lieutenant and a fearless MP Ndindi Nyoro dismissed the move as political gimmicks and dared the same government to use the same force and vigour to interrogate how Kenyatta family and a few others got more than half of the land in Kenyan soil.

The vocal MP who do not shy away to declare his political stand to Deputy President wants the government, if it is serious in repossessing government land, to probe how less than five families bought their land, from who and when saying failure to do that then the so caslled government efforts were ‘a child’s play’.

He added that “when we have a country that so many have nothing to lose, and where inequalities are so glaring, neither the aristocrats nor the dominated are safe. At one point in our Republic, we must demand for land expropriation without compensation and for the corrupt gains from the same over the years,” the pragmatic and savvy MP said.

In an apparent juxtaposition, the self-declared Matiba spirit inheritor wondered how only a few families owns bigger parcels of land while the many Kenyans who fought for independence are still suffering and renting houses in their own country.

“My grandfather owned 5 acres of land, with 12 sons, we as grandchildren barely have anywhere to build (and this replicates to so may other children of the real people who actually fought for independence). I don't buy the crap that this generation of men and women were not hardworking; some few elites who colonised us after Mzungu took advantage of them, took all our land and resources and thereby got all the right to dominate us probably until a revolution to right all these wrongs. Until we revisit such injustices, the rest is child's play,” the MP said in a vitriol tone.

Just this week, the National dailies carried a story detailing how Deputy President William Ruto allegedly grabbed the Ruai land which the government through Principal Secretary for Water and Irrigation Joseph Wairagu claim it was meant for sewerage expansion.

The move did not auger well for Dr Ruto’s foot soldiers who have now launched an onslaught against a section of government officials who they accuse of unfairly targeting Dr Ruto.

Mr Dennis Itumbi wants government to candid and discuss the Truth Justice and Reconciliation (TJRC) report that details on the land ownership in Kenya.

The report is rumoured to explain how rich families such as the Kenyatta’s got their land.

“The Ruai land has been repossessed. Now let us build the sewage as was claimed. As we do that, let us discuss Land ownership in Kenya. TJRC and Ndungu Land Report are good starting points. Political Innuendo & Conjecture does not change #SystemYaFacts on Land ownership in Kenya,” Mr Itumbi former Digitial Director at State House said.

While Dr Ruto may seem to be a man under siege, the ‘political onslaught against him’ could be a well thought out political card that may attract public sympathy and shock the top government officials who could be out to frustrate him and his 2020 Presidential card.