Comedian-turned-activist Eric Omondi has called on the people of Nairobi to join him on Saturday for what he calls \u201cFagia Nairobi.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rallying call has been prompted by the recent flooding that has displaced 2,624 families and resulted in the death of 49, according to police.<\/a><\/p>\n Sharing a video of himself surveying the garbage-filled Nairobi river and its environs, Omondi said the initiative was vital because \u201cclearly we are on our own.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe will not wait for our leaders. We will not wait for committees to agree or disagree. We will take ownership of Nairobi,\u201d he said in the video. \u201cWe will not allow any more deaths. This is our city, this is our town.\u201d<\/p>\n Setting the date, time and venue, Omondi also encouraged everyone who could not make it to clean up wherever they were and send photos so he could share the campaign, stylised as #FagiaNairobi.<\/p>\n \u201cI am calling on all Nairobians, tupatane<\/em> Uhuru Park, this Saturday (March 14) at 8 am, we clean up Nairobi,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will meet there, then disperse\u2026to town, to Koja\u2026to collect garbage, unclog drainage because we are clearly on our own.\u201d<\/p>\n Further sharing clips showing people jumping from matatus after highways became flooded, last Friday, he said the aim was for Nairobi residents to prevent the next disaster.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do not know the next time the floods will hit. It could be tonight. It could be tomorrow. It could be next week, and you could be the next person stuck in that car. Your mother could be the next person stuck in that bus. So we are going to take responsibility,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Omondi\u2019s call comes after Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja said that the county government could not solve the flooding problem on its own, citing his recent alliance with the national government in an interview following Friday\u2019s (March 6) devastation.<\/p>\n \u201cThe city was planned to serve just a few hundred thousand people, but today, Nairobi has a population of over seven million. That is why tough decisions are necessary to change the story, including cooperation with the national government to inject more resources to address the city\u2019s challenges,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In the same interview, the Governor noted that difficult decisions would need to be made to protect the residents and improve the city\u2019s drainage system, including demolishing structures built along waterways.<\/p>\n The Governor gave the interview on Sunday, amid calls for his resignation.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A post shared by Eric Omondi (@ericomondi)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The post Eric Omondi calls for Nairobi cleanup on Saturday<\/a> appeared first on KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comedian-turned-activist Eric Omondi has called on the people of Nairobi to join him on Saturday for what he calls \u201cFagia Nairobi.\u201d The rallying call has been prompted by the recent flooding that has displaced 2,624 families and resulted in the death of 49, according to police. Sharing a video of himself surveying the garbage-filled Nairobi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}