Stop 02 on route 237
Ageing drainage, sewer lines that overflow, and a collection schedule nobody can name. All three are budget decisions, and budget decisions are exactly what an MCA is elected to make.
On the ground
Section 2 is one of Thika’s established residential estates, and its infrastructure is showing its age. The drains and sewer lines were laid for a smaller town. Every heavy rain tests them, and every heavy rain wins.
What follows is predictable: standing water, blocked channels, and a smell residents have simply learned to live with. This is not a mystery of engineering. It is a maintenance line that has not been funded consistently, cycle after cycle, because a cleared drain has no ribbon to cut.
Garbage collection has the same shape. Ask ten residents which day the truck comes and you will get ten answers. A schedule that exists only in an office is not a schedule.
The works that decide whether an estate floods are unglamorous, recurrent and easy to defer. Publishing them every cycle is what makes deferring them expensive.
Commitments
Three commitments for this stop, drawn from Maji na Heshima (Water & Dignity) and Ward Iliyo Wazi (The Published Ward). Each one is written to be checked, not admired.
A Section 2 drainage and sewer maintenance allocation submitted and defended in every annual budget for the full term, with the outcome published each time: what was asked, what survived, and what was spent.
A printed schedule per street, the contractor named on it, and a missed collection logged with a reference number rather than a shrug.
Quarterly, in public: budgeted against spent against delivered. A contractor who knows the score is published behaves differently from one who does not.
Your street
This page describes Section 2 as we understand it today. If we have missed something, or got something wrong, tell us. Corrections from residents carry more weight here than anything written in an office.
What we do with it
