The CEO Water Services Trust Fund Eng. Jacqueline K. Musyoki on Friday officially opened the pay as you use new public sanitation facility in Nyahururu town. The facilities are in quadrant, four public toilets, strategically situated in town to near services to users.
This is the first project of its kind in the region and one of which NYAHUWASCO (Nyahururu Water and Sanitation co. LTD) affirm to its endeavor to provide quality water and sanitation services to residents of Nyahururu municipality and its environs.
The project is worth 9.5 million funded by the Water Trust Fund and executed by the NYAHUWASCO to see the users benefit from high standard sanitation facilities. “This will bring change to the users and customers from the current old, dilapidated and health hazardous facilities.” Explained the NYAHUWASCO Board Chairman, Bishop Luigi Paiaro.
The facility will be run on commercial basis with operators selected from Entrepreneurial youth groups like Nyahururu Jua Kali Shed Group. The selection was through a competitive tendering process in which the chairman of the Jua Kali group, Mr. Njega cited transparency as a value upheld.
In her speech, Eng. Jacqueline congratulated NYAHUWASCO for its continued effort to ensure efficiency in the water supply and proper sanitation facilities to the municipality. Stating that they have proved their position and more projects will be run through them.
