The following email while right in claiming that Mombasa residents and by extension the whole of Coast Province, has a mega water problem, makes claims which don't necessarily have any proof and therefore the writer should not involve all the residents of Mombasa in them!
First, MOWASCO, does not lay the foundations of the infrastructure of laying the pipes, etc. to the town. The people responsible for this are totally unavailable - the Coast Water (Dis)Services Board (CWSB), to answer various queries of the residents. One such example is the meeting that they had been invited to in June this year by the Water Consortium members of whom, I am one, and nobody from this questionable board showed up while some officials from MOWASCO, did and so did a couple from the Council, surprisingly.
The main people doing the job of building the infrastructure and THEN, supplying the MOWASCO with water to distribute to the residents, is the responsibility of the CWSB. The question is - why have all these 'officials' doing one job of supplying the residents with water? They are just eating into precious funds, by, claiming huge salaries and sitting allowances for the umpteen meetings that they are consistently holding in just one week!
Yes, re the collection of money is done by MOWASCO, too, from which they pay the CWSB for the water that they 'use'. In fact, they have a meter to show how much they should be paying CWSB at the end of every month.
Therefore, could the writer please, explain, in detail how and where he got all his information, from? I'm not disputing any of what he is telling us, but, in this age of transparency, isn't it in order that he explain how he reached all his conclusions?
Btw, those MPs, whom he tries to dress up as very 'clean' and who are trying to remove Mr. Kimunya from office probably have their own personal axes to grind and therefore has no bearing on this particular issue. It's all a matter of the pot calling the kettle black!
Razia.
atha achola wrote on Saturday, 5th July 2008 at 8:08 PM:
Dear Consumers,
Mombasa water supply system is infected and the Ministry of Water and Irrigation seems to be enjoying it while Mombasa residents continue to suffer. Ever since water management in the City of Mombasa was transfered to now 'twice collapsed' Mombasa Water and Sewerage and Company (MOWASCO), consumers have not seen water peace.
Last year the Ministry of Water took over the management of water after dessolving Mowasco Board of Directors following mismanagement and corruption allegations. Consumers hoped then the situation would change to the better but things took a nother turn to the worst.
A Mr Chitavi the MD brought to salvage the situation has instead been sucked into the muddy corrupt dealings involving directing water revenues into personal accounts. At the moment there are two distinct investigative arms of the government; the Anti Corruption and CID investigating the MD over allegation of corruption and mismanagement yet 'A Mr Chitavi is enjoying the law of 'Impunity'. He is comfortably working as nothing is wrong.
Consumers now want the Minister, Hon Ngilu to act and ask the MD to step aside so as to allow investigations to carry on smoothly. We cannot keep paying for inefficiency. IF THERE WILL BE NO ACTION THEN just as MPs are planning to 'remove' Hon. Kimunya from office we shall also gather Mombasa water consumers to remove Chitavi from office. This is because the water supply is affected as no meaningful work to improve the situation is going on now.
Regards
Atha Achola
For Water Consumers
Most of the postings are to do with what an average Kenyan citizen has to deal with, in the country, to survive. They go through and are treated with a lot of injustice, where very few in 'officialdom', will take notice of their problems or even do anything about them. Hence, this blog and the belief in, 'One learned man is harder on the devil than a thousand ignorant worshipers' - Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
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