The County Government of Kisumu has secured a Sh 40million grant for the development for a sewage treatment at Kodiaga Maximum Prison and its environs
Chief Administrative Secretary for Interior Winnie Guchu, made the announcement and said the funds were sourced by Water Sector Trust Fund to address any environmental challenges posed by the outdated facilities at the prison.
The prison that is currently operating a conventional treatment plant has been embroiled in an environmental war with the community who accused them of emptying raw sewer into a local stream.
Maintenance and operations
โWater Sector Trust Fund is able to source for funds from different development partners, so the water treatment plant is a decentralized facility. The final designs are near completion and the engineers are here to make final arrangements to have a procurement call placed in the local dallies,โ said Guchu.
Construction will begin October and upon completion, a population of 10,000 people will benefit from the new facility. This includes Kodiaga Maximum Prison, Kodiaga Women Poison, hospital staff, prison staff and the neighboring community.
โWe have a population of about 7,000 including inmates and the staff working here and another 3,000 people in the community that is neighboring the correctional facility,โ she said.
The facility will allow exhauster trucks to dispose of their contents from the field for treatment. Guchu noted that the new facility will require a small piece of land as opposed to the current system which has seven huge ponds taking up a huge parcel of land. Once the plant is established, it will be handed over to Kisumu Water and Sewerage Company (KIWASCO) for maintenance and operations.
