National and County government heads of departments in Nandi County have been sensitised on the need to dispose of electronic waste in the proper way to manage hazardous health risks for humans and the environment.
The training organised by the ICT Authority was attended by close to a hundred heads of departments across the two levels of government at Kapsabet Primary School Hall on Wednesday.
ICT Authority officials, who are constitutionally mandated to sensitise and manage e-waste across public entities, regretted that many people, including government employees, were not aware of the dangers of unsafe disposal of e-waste. "It has been noted that some of the e-waste in public offices in the country is not being accounted for," Purity Wangui, an official from the ICT authority, revealed.
Wangui said that the ICT Authority had identified eight regional e-waste collection centres across the country, and it plans to devolve the centres to all 47 counties.
