This archive report was first published on 19 July 2019.
On July 18, 2019, the National Environmental Management Authority (Nema) issued a closure order against the Windsor Golf Hotel, a prestigious establishment owned by the Michuki family, over poor sanitary management and discharge of untreated waste into the environment.
The hotel's manager was arrested by Nema on Thursday, July 18, 2019, after the establishment was found to be discharging untreated waste into the environment.
According to Nema, the hotel failed to implement recommendations proposed to it by the Authority on June 20, 2019, and a closure order has been issued.
Windsor Golf Hotel, built by former Environment Minister John Michuki, who introduced tough environmental laws, especially in the protection of rivers, is now managed by his children after his death in 2012.
Kiambu Governor William Kabogo, whose home neighbors Windsor Hotel, had raised a complaint to the government over the release of toxic waste into a nearby river.
“@NemaKenya Save us from Windsor Hotel pollution. We can’t sleep at night, they are releasing raw toxic effluent in to the river. I doubt you will do anything coz it has been reoccurring. @StateHouseKenya I have hope coz Tobiko is Tibim,” Kabogo said in April.
