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Nairobi Deputy Governor Anne Kananu and COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli shortly after unveiling the road. [Courtesy].
Nairobi County Government has renamed a road after workers union boss Francis Atwoli.
Deputy Governor Anne Kananu yesterday renamed Mandera Road in Kileleshwa after the Central Organisations of Trade Unions (COTU) Secretary-General Francis Atwoli to honour the veteran unionist for his efforts in agitating for workers rights. This road has been renamed after my good friend and brother bwana Francis Atwoli in recognition of his selfless contribution and agitating for the rights of Kenyan workers in the last 54 years, said Deputy Governor Anne Kananu.
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Police officers guard one of the closed public toilets in Nairobi’s CBD on Friday, May 14. [Standard]
Nairobi City youth and women groups that operate public toilets in Nairobi’s CBD have accused the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) of harassment a day after the sudden closure of the facilities.
Speaking at OTC, Nairobi on Friday, May 14, Nairobi County public toilet association spokesperson Francis Macharia said NMS was yet to give them guidelines on how they fit the new arrangements since their takeover to warrant the shut.
He wondered why NMS shut the toilets before communicating to them yet they have not breached the four-year contracts signed with the county government to manage the facilities.
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Nairobi city is now back to a default setting, and woe unto you if the nature call demanded that you use a public toilet in the central business district.
A woman walks past a closed public toilet near Kenya National Archives in Nairobi, on Thursday, May 13, 2021. [David Njaaga, Standard]
The facilities were on May 13 closed, inconveniencing thousands of people who transit through the city and others who work in Nairobi.
The closure of the public toilets was conducted by police and Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) officers in a move that caught many within OTC, National Archives and Accra Road, unawares.
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NAIROBI
Nairobi city is now back to a default setting, and woe unto you if the nature call demanded that you use a public toilet in the central business district.
A woman walks past a closed public toilet near Kenya National Archives in Nairobi, on Thursday, May 13, 2021. [David Njaaga, Standard]
The facilities were on May 13 closed, inconveniencing thousands of people who transit through the city and others who work in Nairobi.
The closure of the public toilets was conducted by police and Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) officers in a move that caught many within OTC, National Archives and Accra Road, unawares.
If you stop along Kenneth Matiba Road (formerly Accra Road) in Nairobi and ask for Peter Njoroge, no one will assist you. That is because the man who operates tiny office along the busy street is better known by his alias ‘Jahazi’.
Like the popular catchphrase used by Safaricom to allow their customers borrow airtime or bundles, ‘Jahazi’ is popular among hawkers, boda bodas, cart pushers and many others for coming to their rescue thanks to his connection with cops and city county askaris.
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An engineer by profession, Njoroge is coordinator of the Trolley and Handcart Pushers Association, a position he has held for more than five years after he was retrenched by the coming he was working with.