Major spill of toxic sludge into River Thigithe, Mara

“…there's a major emergency at Barrick's North Mara. There has been a major spill of their toxic sludge into River Thigithe that flows into the Mara. This happened the day before yesterday and I've been busy trying to arrange journalists to go and cover the story. The entire community is in a huge uproar and panic. They have told me there are dead fish and all kinds of other water life along the river. Barrick's apparently very busy trying to kill the story before it goes out. We need to get this out as soon as yesterday. I don't know how this can be accomplished here but we obviously need scientific investigation of this spill and what the poisons are. People are very scared in the area. I've just been on the phone with Mr. Neto Sasi a short while ago. I told him to organize his people so that at least they can take samples of the water and the fish for testing. But then you know I’m not a scientist. We need someone with the training to tell us
what to do. This is extremely urgent!” (Tundu Lisu)