Lusaka City Council (LCC) Council Public Relations Officer Henry Kapata says the council will take appropriate measures against anyone found disposing garbage indiscriminately in the city.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka yesterday, Mr. Kapata said the local authority will spare no effort to sternly deal with people in the habit of disposing of garbage anyhow.
Mr. Kapata said, like was the case on Omelo Mumba Road, whoever will be found disposing garbage in undesignated areas will be made to pick up the garbage and pay a fine of about 2500 units which is equivalent to K450,000.
He said that the act by the LCC to punish all those disposing waste is part of the Public Health Act cap 295 of the laws of Zambia.
He said that last week two Lusaka residents, Nawa Sitwala and Ntenga Mwenya were punished by the LCC for indiscriminate disposing of garbage in undesignated area and that the duo has since finished doing the punishment.
He said the two named people were told to clean the allay on Lusaka’s Omelo Mumba Road in seven days and that they have done a good job which they completed only done in four days.
ZANIS
Well the should maximise in farm areas were people from the city come to dump garbage on farm properties.
Thats a tough one.It will certainly make the city livable and healthier and in the process earn the city loads of cash in fines.The worst offenders are street traders and plot owners who don’t provide space within for garbage disposal so they dump it on the street side.Squeeze them hard LCC till we have a disciplined and clean city.
Provide more gabbage bins in the city. Fine everyone who throws litter in the city. That is how cities and towns are kept clean.
Yes Kasonde, more garbage bins are required in the cities. They should also provide more toilets.
i have heard this one before along with the public urinating fine which ended up in words
TRANSLATE THIS INTO ACTION. PLSE WE ZAMBIANS ARE TIRED OF RHETORICS.
How are they going to enforce this especially with Kaponyas all over city centre?
LSK is too dirty…CB is laka…..
Provide pipo with garbage bins and information on disposal areas b4 u start slapping fines on em.
inga ama street vendors, they are a catalysts in all this, more vendors more garbage
The fines are welcome but who should police the council ,because there worst culprit at nwe soweto market ,they built a market without any garbage disposal area and all they seem to do its trek day in day out dumping rubbish under the Zesco pillion which the fail to collect on time .i think Mr Kapata and his team are playing double standards,I will take it upon myself to take a video and mug shots of council workers committing this vice and post it on the net to highlight their prejudice.Moreover even if people dump waste in designated area the council take so long to collect the waste to point were waste becomes a toxic mixture of bacteria. The council should lead by example and not cower citizens with unrealistic fines and arrests.DO YOUR JOB NOT TO JUST APPEAR ON TV .
ITS A HIGH TIME WE DONT WANT GARBAGE ITS AN EYE SORE.
Bwana Kapata just wait for kaponyas to protest about that 400pin the constable will cancel on the pretext that it will make his useless government unpopular.
Since kaponyas are a law unto themselves under the current PaFwaka government no meaning public act health act will be respected.
What we have failed to change in our country is the atitude of the ordinary Zambian.Everyone thinks it is someone’s responsibility to keep our towns clean and we thoughtlessly throw away litre anywhere.Now if we can not change the mentality, punishing offenders is the right direction to go. People should be made to move those mountains of garbage I see when visit lsk may it can help, it’s too much.No small piece of paper should be thrown thoughtlessly including sweet wrappers,balance slips from the ATM.
This will go no where. We have heard this kind of talk many times. Some people will be punished and others will go free. ACT AND DON’T JUST WRITE THINGS TO RAISE PEOPLE’S HOPES WHEN YOU KNOW NOTHING WILL COME OUT OF IT.Â
Good Move…But we need to kn where the money will be spent on, unlike ZNBC who Collects a lot of Money from Us but they can’t on their own sponsor Afcon……Very useless Mgment…..i shud think they are plunderers…….
GOOD MOVE. STREET VENDING AGGRAVATES THE PROBLEM OF KEEPING LUSAKA CLEAN, AND IN MANY OTHER TOWNS IN ZAMBIA. MUNICIPAL COUNCILS SHOULD EMBARK ON CONSTRUCTING NEW BUSINESS SITES WHERE THESE STREET VENDORS COULD BE ACCOMMODATED, THEN WE CAN CLEAR OUR STREETS OF THE STREET VENDING MONSTER THAT HAS SWALLOWED ZAMBIA. THE TEMPORAL SHELTERS CONSTRUCTED BY THE ROADSIDE ARE REALLY MAKING OUR TOWNS LOOK VERY UGLY. THESE POSE A HEALTH HAZARD TO ALL OF US. POLITICIANS WAKE UP AND TACKLE THIS BIG PROBLEM EMERGING IN ZAMBIA. THE STREET VENDING PROBLEM AND KEEPING ZAMBIA CLEAN.
this will be the most progressive think LCC will do in a long time. hope the politicians will stay away and let the knowing do their job
mr kapata pliz can you also do somethimg about people who burn toxic gabbage in their yards causing toxic fumes go into other people homes causing unknown ailments. in PHI people burn toxic materials and i have been to lusaka city council for them to stop the rot all am told by the council is put it in writting. Mr kapata pliz act not talking
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