Traders who have erected stalls on drainage systems have been told to vacate and seek alternative spaces for their business.
Environment CEC Vesca Kangongo said that the traders, especially those in slum areas, are dumping waste in the drainage lines, frustrating ongoing efforts by the county to unclog the daiange.
She said traders have irregularly erected racks and stalls on sewer lines.
She said the County Government will demolish them.
“The county has been unclogging the drainage systems but all these efforts are curtailed by traders who are dumping all manner of waste in the systems,” Kangogo said.
Most of the illegal dumping is done by traders selling vegetables, bananas, maize and electronic traders within residential estates.
The traders are expected to have dust bins for their waste but majority of them have defied this directive.
Vesca said the county does not plan to frustrate efforts by young entrepreneurs to make ends meet but it wants to make the environment they operate in clean.
“We want traders who generate waste to stick to regulations because when they deliberately dump waste all over, they are breaking the law and we will soon be arresting them,” she said.
The county has set aside Sh2.7 billion in the current financial year for expansion of water and sewerage infrastructure.
Early this year, Governor Mike Sonko directed his officers to fully implement the Nairobi City County Solid Waste Management Act to avert cases of perennial pollution of the environment.
The unclogging of the drainage systems within Nairobi City estates and major highways is still ongoing.
Sonko has requested those who feel that their areas’ drainage systems have not been unblocked to share with the county the locations that need to be visited.