Livingstone City Council has engaged nine private (9)companies to collect waste on its behalf in a bid to keep the city clean ahead of the United Nations World Tourism General Assembly (UNWTO) next year.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS today, Livingstone City Acting Public Relations Manager Emmanuel Sikanyika said the council has entered into an agreement with the companies to help in refuse collection as one of the measures to keep the tourist capital clean.
“ As part of our efforts to clean the city before the UNWTO we have since engaged nine private companies to help us in waste collection and management and are expected to begin work soon,” said Mr. Sikanyika.
And Mr Sikanyika said construction works and allocation of plots at Tandabale market will commence as soon as the Ministry of Local Government approves the necessary documents adding that a Memorandum of Understanding with the Tandabale market committee had already been signed.
Mr. Sikanyika also reiterated that the council will go ahead with the demolition of the town Market commonly known as Zimbabwe market to pave way for the construction of an ultra modern market.
He said the Council has identified two sites where traders will be re-located to once the current market is razed down.
Last month, government through the Local Authority released about K28 billion for the construction of a modern market in the Tourist Capital.
Meanwhile, Mr Sikanyika admitted that the local authority was facing some challenges in ensuring that all bar owners comply with the law regarding operating hours of their business due to inadequate transport for patrols.
He however cautioned bar owners to conduct their business within the confines of the law adding that the Council would soon pounce on offenders in bid to bring sanity in the Tourist Capital.
ZANIS
Assume that every day, every year there is UNWTO in L/stone and you shall keep your city clean.
Good start but remove vendors from the streets. Go ahead and don’t fear Sata’s directive for vendors to keep trading on the streets. For as long as vendors Re on the streets, the streets will not be clean. Don’t just keep streets clean for the sake of UNWTO but for the sake of daily health of all Zambians and visitors.
Lets not just clean our houses when we are expecting visitors! We all deserve a clean environment and good health.
Zambia’s cleanliness is not coming back as long as Sata is in state hse.These dirty people is where Sata earns his votes and he could care less about zambia because his political interests come first.
IS THIS A CITY IN ZAMBIA? NO WONDER THE COUNTRY IS SO BACKWARD, I WONT BRING MY KOREAN WIFE TO ZED, OTHERWISE SHE WILL RUN AWAY
Please stay away, can assure assure you no one will lose sleep over it.
I thought only the uneducated can talk like Malinso. Anyway, the name implies so.
ZAMBIA IS A VERY DIRTY COUNTRY. YOU ONLY CLEAN YOUR SURROUNDINGS BECAUSE OF AN EVENT. AFTER THAT YOU WALLOW IN DIRT AGAIN LIKE PIGS. WHAT A COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!
IT’S TRUE THAT ZAMBIA IS THE MOST DIRTY COUNTRY.. CLEAN ALL COUNTRY WHY YOU ONLY CLEAN YOUR SURROUNDING BECAUSE IT’S THE TOURIST CAPITAL. :-? PLEASE CLEAN THE ALL COUNTRY.
9 Waste Management Companies for a small city Livingstone is a sign of incompetent men and women running a Municipality.What a joke there are better solutions out there but these blocks choose to contract 9 Companies so they can be seen like they are working not realizing they are exposing their incompetence.Zambia is not ready for WTO the Ministry of Tourism is run by an incompetent Minister together with her PS, The Tourism Board needs to be shut down and closed it has been a burden and a drain to the bankrupt broke national treasury, The money given to the Tourism Board is a waste less than 1 millions tourists came to Zambia in the last 20 years.Tourism is not Livingstone or going to the Game Park that is just a small part of the bigger picture of tourism.
Please PAINT the roads, that is, mark them too!
No. 7, you have a bad name. I guess nothing positive can out of someone with such a name