Moving the Mayungu dumpsite to Malindi town, Kilifi County, is now desired by the street families who live there and scavenge there due to health concerns.
A hundred families, spearheaded by Mrs. Jane Kalu, have vociferously demanded that the county government take immediate steps to provide them with alternative sources of income, citing their perpetual lack of benefits from the dumpsites.
The dumpsite is a repository for all forms of waste, with a perpetual fire emitting toxic smoke that engulfs the area, often stretching up to five kilometers depending on the wind's direction, posing severe health risks.
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She demanded that the county government move the dumpsite to protect residents from the health risks it posed.
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Journalists encountered a scavenger's life firsthand during a visit to the dump site. Mrs. Kalu and her companions discovered a rotting, butchered goat, which they claimed to wash, cook, and consume inside the net to keep out flies.
The forty-year-old Mr. Ali Muhaso claimed that he was raised in the landfill and that although it is never set on fire, a dangerous amount of smoke is continuously released by the fire.
He continued by saying that fire is always present, even in the most inactive mounds of earth, and that when the county's bulldozers come to level the land, the fire is exposed, and sharp smoke is released.
