Nairobians Wake Up To Littered Streets As Sonko’s Rescue Workers Strike

The Sonko Rescue Team workers are a disgruntled lot and Nairobians are feeling it in the messiest way as the workers have littered Nairobi in their early morning Tuesday strike.

The Sonko Rescue Team was joined in the strike by garbage collectors contracted by City Hall and are yet to be paid.

The garbage collectors contracted by the Nairobi County government together with the Sonko Rescue Team toured various streets in the Central Business District (CBD).

The Sonko Rescue Team workers were in their famous red overalls with the embroidery ‘MIKE SONKO RESCUE TEAM’.

The smelly mess greeted Nairobian’s who reported early to work in the CBD and is yet to be collected by the time this story was published.

Meanwhile, the Nairobi County Finance and Environment department continues to play the blame game on who ought to held responsible for the mess.

The Mike Sonko Rescue Team emptied trash cans and poured all the mess into the streets as they chanted in protest.

The Sonko Rescue Team together with the contracted garbage collectors says the Nairobi County Government owes them a three-month pending salary.

The striking garbage collectors and the Sonko Rescue Team called upon the Nairobi Governor and the County finance office to pay them up as life had become unbearable for them.

The Nairobi County Governor is currently not allowed to access his City Hall office following a pending criminal case, a decision that has since caused confusion on the management of the County Affairs.

Nairobi County does not have a deputy Governor since the resignation of Polycarp Igathe who cited difficulties working with Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko.

“I am aware of the strike which is due to non-payment for almost three months. For us as a department, we do not make payments. This is the mandate of the Finance department which has had a tussle on who is the substantive CEC,” Mr. Wambua said.

The finance department, however, blames the Environment for not forwarding the list of contractors that need to be paid.

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