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<\/div>Lake View MCA Simon Wanyoike Wanango examines one of the street-light boxes\u00a0vandalised in Kayole Estate, Naivasha.<\/strong> [Antony Gitonga, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Residents are fearing for their safety as several estates have been plunged into darkness following vandalism of street lights.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n It is a situation that has seen Nakuru County government lose millions of shillings as local leaders seek for the enforcement of the Scrap Metal Act 2015 to curb vandalism and enhance regulation. <\/p>\n The law states that a person shall not deal in scrap metal, unless that person has a licence issued by the council and is a member of Scrap Metal Dealers Association.\n<\/p>\n It further proposes a penalty not exceeding Sh20 million or a prison term not exceeding five years or both for a second or subsequent offence in dealing with scrap metals.<\/p>\n The leaders have pointed an accusing finger at the dealers for the rise in vandalism cases targeting some lights that were put up during the World Rally Championship.\n<\/p>\n Members of the county assembly are now accusing scrap metal dealers for the rise in the cases that have affected Kayole, Kihoto, Site, Kabati and Lakeview estate.\n<\/p>\n According to Lake View MCA Simon Wanyoike Wanango, the county had lost millions of shillings this financial year due to the vandalism that targeted the street lights. <\/p>\n \u201cWe shall be forced to go back to the county assembly and seek more funds through the supplementary budget so as to repair the damaged lights,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n Wanango termed the vandalism as a well-organised racket.\n<\/p>\n \u201cWe are asking police to intervene and deal with these vandals who have turned estates into dark alleys after stealing all the lights,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lake View MCA Simon Wanyoike Wanango examines one of the street-light boxes\u00a0vandalised in Kayole Estate, Naivasha. [Antony Gitonga, Standard] Residents are fearing for their safety as several estates have been plunged into darkness following vandalism of street lights.\u00a0 It is a situation that has seen Nakuru County government lose millions of shillings as local leaders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}