The Livingstone City Council ( LCC ) mayor Aggrey Njekwa has taken to task the Southern Water sewerage company (SWASCO) for the delayed completion of over 500 Toilets in Libuyu compound in Livingstone.
Mr. Njekwa rebuked the water utility company for delaying the project which was scheduled to take about seven months to complete.
He said this when he addressed a number of concerned residents of Libuyu compound who stormed his office today to seek his intervention.
SWASCO for unexplained reasons has not met the deadline causing the affected residents in the areas to seek alternative areas for their toilet needs.
” The sanitation condition is in a deplorable state with pity latrines being full forcing the residents to dig extra shallow pity and scope the human waste using buckets into the pity, ” one of the residents, Edgar Mainza said.
Mr. Mainza added that the contractors have left the pits uncovered resulting in danger among the community especially children.
He has for this reason appealed to Livingstone City Council to intervene in the project ensure that it is completed so that the health of the community are protected.
But Southern Water and Sewerage Company (SWASCO) Regional senior manager Gift Monde said one the delay was due to the protest by the contractors’ workers over non payment of their salaries.
He said as SWASCO the was no way they should have interfered in the contractors’ affairs, but only advised the Contractor to resolve the issue so that they got back to work.
He further revealed that SWASCO has last written a warning letter to the contractor to speedup the work at the site and finish the project in time.
The project started in September 2009 and is being funded by Devolution Trust Fund and was suppose to be completed in seven
months time.
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Our students reveal that the chinese would have finished the project by now.Â
# 1 True that. Some of these zed chaps are not serious
What is the name of the contractor????? Terminate his contract please
SWASCO and LCC are not seroius. The people in Highlands do not have water up to now. They are making their own roads as if they did not pay service charges.Can someone explain to me what these council use this service charge for when most of the plots that they give out are not serviced even after ten yrs.