Marsabit county leaders were served dirty water in plastic bottles at a meeting on Monday at Karare market.
The residents sent the clear message: we demand clean drinking water. They had boiled dirty born water and served it at the table. No one drank it.
The meeting was to discuss the Marsabit Municipal Charter.
Former Laisamis MP Joseph Lekuton said that they are not ready to have Karare included in the municipality, noting that they are ready to sue and get an order.
He said residents have “far-more pressing issues” that need urgent solution before the municipality.
“We clearly need clean water as can be seen. Clean water is vital to society. Why prioritise the municipality when our people are still suffering?” Lekuton asked.
He also said the law had not been followed when the positions of the municipality board members were advertised.
The people of Karare are opposed to the call for a municipality until all sensitive issues are taken care of, he said.
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