The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) and its subsidiary, Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited, are appealing to 473 households in Changamwe Sub-County to vacate pipeline lands to prevent disaster.
KPC is implementing a nationwide exercise to clear highly flammable petroleum pipeline way leaves to enhance communities' safety and security and to avail land for future developments and maintenance of existing pipelines.
Most of the residents in Changamwe, Portreitz, Chaani and Airport wards in Mombasa have encroached on the company's land, oblivious to the imminent disaster that awaits them in case of a leak as the pipelines rust and give in from age and corrosion.
Some of the residents have voluntarily commenced the demolition of their houses that have encroached on pipeline land, as others have adopted the wait-and-see tactic.
