MKURANGA District Commissioner (DC), Mercy Sila has
cautioned residents of Kiguza village in Mkuranga ward in Coast region against
misuse of water pumps and other equipments used for the supply of water and
asked them to take care of water wells which are constructed by donors for
their domestic use. The DC made the call last week during the inauguration of
the two solar driven water wells which took place at Kiguza village and at Tambani
Secondary School in Mkuranga district respectively. The two wells have been
constructed in the area by help of a US based African Reflections Foundation
(ARF) who visited the area in March this year during World Water Day and met
with the district officials whom they promised to build for them five wells. The
two wells whose pumps uses solar power generation has constructed at a cost of
Sh. 70 million, and both of which will be officially handed over to the village
government leaders today (on Tuesday) in a ceremony to be attended by officials
and councilors from Mkuranga district council. The construction is part of
their fulfillment to accomplish the government’s long term program aimed to
ensure the implementation of its millennium development goals which requires
its people to receive clean and safe water supply by the year 2015. The DC
cautioned when she delivered her speech to the people of Kiguza village who
turned up to witness the occasion, and she also used the opportunity to warn
some untrustworthy people within her district who do not care of the water
infrastructures installed and instead tend to steal these equipment without
caring about their necessity to the people. She mentioned such equipments as
water pumping machines, solar panels, underground pipes and other fixing
equipments like water taps and other parts. However, she said and asked her
people to take a keen interest and respect donors who to a great extent have
played a crucial role to end up water problem facing her people in the
district.
However, the DC has
also ordered the village government leaders of the area to plan for a communal
security organization saying that it is the only way to curb against the
increased vandalism of these equipments. The DC is on the view of the fact
that, a planned security organization will create a syndicate that would ensure
safety of these equipments placed at constructed water well which are
disappearing in a mysterious circumstances. She has also thanked the donor for
their sponsorship which she said has helped to a certain extent a great burden
that overwhelmed women in the area who toils everyday walking long distances in
search of clean and safe water. On her part, the founder of the ARF who is also
a consul of the Seychelles government in the country Merryvonne Pool said that,
her foundation which has donated over 57 water wells in some other places in
the country which have been installed with solar power with 25 lifespan. Out of
these wells, 15 have been constructed in Mkuranga district alone. She further
noted that, her foundation has started to produce free eye medical treatment to
the people within the district, a program which she said will be continuous
whenever need be. ARF was established in the country with a view to raise
standards of living to the poor people by bringing to them clean and safe
drinking water especially to poor communities. The firm has been engaged in
construction of water wells in different parts of the country. In order to
achieve these objectives, the firm has been working closely with the local
government authorities in the country in order to raise then standards of
living by providing humanitarian aid.
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