Owners of Hikma Baitul Integrated International School in Parklands converts Mathare River into a swimming pool, exposing learners, staffs to health Risks
A private developer is now exposing more than 200 young learners and members of public to, among others, life-threatening diseases after diverting a section of Mathare River so that they can construct and ran a school in the Parklands area of Nairobi.
This is happening even as President William Ruto continues championing for environmental conservation.
Owners of Hikma Baitul Integrated International School have constructed structures including a swimming pool that has resulted in diversion of the neighboring river Mathare from the Parklands side to the riparian area of Muthaiga Estate.
Construction of the school including the swiming pool in an area where there is no public sewer line was never approved by the relevant authoritues.
” Students and staff at the school are now fac...