The Nairobi County Public Health Enforcement and Technical Team is now ensuring that the QuickMart Ruai supermarket remains closed until the management complies with the statutory notice and directives issued by the Nairobi Metropolitan Services.
The supermarket management has pledged to comply with waste management directives in a letter addressed to them by the NMS via court intervention.
Among the measures to be followed are storing waste prior to collection for disposal and ceasing to use the goods receiving bay as a waste storage point.
“Directed to fulfill the following conditions; Provide a holding area for your kitchen, store waste prior to collection for disposal, stop dumping your kitchen waste in the parking yard, and provide standard waste receptacles,” the notice read in part.
Others include designating a separate and distinct space to be used as the receiving bay and to avoid blending items with waste.
The two previously arrested control personnel have also been released on Sh250,000 cash bail pending a hearing and backbone on December 14, 2022.
Nicholas Kinyua Kariuki, the grocery store manager, and Erick Wanjala Wafula, the compliance officer, had previously been arrested.
According to the court docket, the offense was emitting pollution into the setting by way of burning waste and generating heavy smoke in violation of section 142(1) (b) of the environmental control and coordination act (EMCA) No. 75 of 2015, thereby polluting the setting.
