Sifa Cleaning Services has been allocated licence by the county to collect garbage in Kilimani, Lavington, Kileleshwa and Kangemi.
The firm will charge a fee set by City Hall based on income levels, with residents of affluent Kilimani, Lavington and Kileleshwa set to pay between Sh500 and Sh750 per month while Kangemi residents will pay Sh150.
Currently, private contractors negotiate deals and pricing directly with households, which also pay the city for the service.
Waste collection firms in Kilimani, Lavington, Kileleshwa and Kangemi will have to find alternative estates for their business after City Hall allocated a single firm to collect garbage from the four areas.
The shift will also see the county government start setting garbage collection fees from next week.
Kilimani, Lavington, Kileleshwa and Kangemi have been lumped together as one zone and the three-year exclusive contract awarded to Sifa Cleaning Services, which has 10 trucks of varying capacity.
The firm will charge a fee set by City Hall based on income levels, with residents of affluent Kilimani, Lavington and Kileleshwa set to pay between Sh500 and Sh750 per month while Kangemi residents will pay Sh150.
“From November 1, Nairobi City County will be rolling out a franchise type of contract for waste collection and transportation. Under this arrangement, only one company will be allowed to operate in the area collecting all the generated waste and street sweeping,” City Hall said in a statement.
It expects to replicate this model in other zones across the city by 2016.
Currently, private contractors negotiate deals and pricing directly with households, which also pay the city for the service.
City Hall said 37 operators in the zone were given adequate notice to form a consortium and operate the garbage business as a single firm under a new plan that will change how the city’s waste is disposed.
“Any licence that the county government gave them for this year indicates that once the franchise starts, they should vacate the area,” said City Hall.
The central business district is already under a similar arrangement, with Creative Consolidated offering sweeping and refuse collection services.
Delivering a cleaner Nairobi is one of the benchmarks that city residents have been using to measure the effectiveness of the county’s administration, which many have termed unsatisfactory.
The rapid population growth and expansion of Nairobi have made it difficult for City Hall to make the city clean, paving the way for the private sector service providers.
The new plan comes as governor Evans Kidero’s quest to deliver a cleaner Nairobi was dealt a blow after an allocation of Sh350 million to buy 40 refuse trucks and garbage bins was knocked off City Hall’s budget for the fiscal year that started this month.
The budget committee instead gave each of Nairobi’s 85 wards Sh300,000 annually to be paid out to youth groups involved in garbage collection, pushing the total allocation to Sh25.5 million.
A proposal by the county treasurer to have containers for garbage collection in informal settlements was also shelved.
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