The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) alongside the National Police Service have arrested 17 persons in Makueni County over failure to comply with the Environmental Management Coordination Act.
Speaking in Wote town, the outgoing Makueni County NEMA Director Vincent Oloo Ochieng said most of the arrests were specifically made at key facilities, including hotels and hospitals that neither submitted the annual environmental audit report nor applied for the annual effluent discharge licence.
Subsequently, Ochieng disclosed that the proprietors of Rapha Hospital and Eden Mart Petrol Station in Wote town have since been taken to court for the twin offences.
At the same time, other institutions were also given a police cash and improvement notices of 7 days to comply or risk prosecution.
