Government is disappointed with the way the make Zambia clean and health campaign, which it launched in 2007, is being implemented.
Local Government and Housing Minister Emerine Kabanshi singled out garbage collection as one area that has not performed well because most local authorities lack capacity to effectively clear refuse.
Ms. Kabanshi said this in Lusaka today when she handed over refuse trucks and bins to selected councils in the country.
She said her ministry will soon be announcing measures that it will be taken to improve solid waste management.
Ms. Kabanshi said the ministry has also prioritised the procurement, mobilisation and distribution of modern solid waste collection and disposal equipment to local authorities.
She said this was meant to improve garbage collection which she said was still a serious challenge.
The minister has meanwhile bemoaned the culture of indiscriminate dumping of waste among Zambians noting that this poses a health risk to the public.
She said the private sector which is involved in production of goods has also not taken responsibility to sensitise their customers on the proper means of disposing garbage.
The waste disposal equipment that was handed over to councils include eight refuse compactor trucks, four skip trucks, and 172 skip bins worth K24.6 million.
The compactor trucks were handed over to Lusaka and Kitwe City Councils who received two each, while Ndola, Kabwe, Choma and Chipata received one each.
The four skip trucks went to Kasama, Chinsali, Solwezi and Chililabombwe councils.
And speaking at the same event, Mayor Deputy Lusaka Mulenga Sata thanked government for assisting councils with equipment that will lead to better management of waste in councils.
Mr. Sata said councils alone cannot handle the challenges of garbage collection hence the need for government to provide financial and material support.
And in a vote of thanks, Solwezi Town Clerk Ronald Daka thanked government for coming to the aid of the local authorities most of whom lack capacity to effectively manage waste.
Mr. Daka also asked the Ministry of Local Government and Housing to extend the gesture to all the councils in the country because they were all grappling with challenges of garbage collection.
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When my fiance and I visited zambia it was dirty, I mean Zambia not just Lusaka
COme to London, COme to Glasgow
I will send pictures and upload some on my instagram, as well as Facebook and i hope lessons can be learned
Thanks
what is Tandiwa Rupiah Banda`s sister doing in the PF govt. am sure Emerine Kabanshi must be Tandiwa`s sister all that looklike awe shuwa
E. Kabanshi looks beddable. How tall is she? Is she in wheel-chair.. hooo hoo sorry the handicapped are not considered in PF.
Local Government and Housing Minister Emerine Kabanshi singled out garbage collection as one area that has not performed well————but Kabanshi praised street vending which is doing very well!!!!!
“The Minister has meanwhile [pa fiko fya mu Lusaka City] bemoaned the culture of indiscriminate dumping of waste among Zambians.
Mama, do not blame Zambians. Your PF government has caused it by allowing so much street vending. Luo was demoted for trying to clean the cities.Try to shame the devilish PF that you are principled too, and would like to clean the streets. You will have saved a lot of lives that are being lost because of that dirt.
Just because a piece was done the other day on how dirty Lusaka that is why you release this useless statement I order to be seen working. Rubbish
Debo, it was not a piece that appeared on DIRT IN LUSAKA CITY. It was a lot that showed how careless your PF government is. Call it a piece but it meant a lot of sense. You may be the only one in love with death-dirt in our cities, but pray, spare us from your deadly dumps. Ciza uli ya vikona?
The only solution is for your PF party which washes dirty linen in public to REMOVE THE STREET VENDORS from the streets and shop corridors of Lusaka.
Hahaha, africans we’re a hopeless lot. Lusaka is just as dirty as my home city Accra (a big village in reality) Come visit an area of Accra called Teshie & Sodom and you’ll be hopeless.WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS MY AFRICAN BROTHERS & SISTERS.
My personal experience:
1. Paid in advance for gabbage collection at a residence in Chawama. They collected gabbage once out of the agreed 4 and never came back.
2. Paid K200 (debased) at Waste Management office at Lusaka Civic centre for one-off collection of gabbage (accumulated during construction) of an institution in Kamwala. After agreed collection dates passed I followed up several times. I left that institution and I understand the gabbage was never collected and the money paid was not refunded!
3. For me, LCC and its allied institutions only exists to block development. LET SOMEONE DISAGREE WITH ME and give me some ray of hope.
Very right bro/sis. in fact why maintain such institutions let alone dummies who dont even understand how to run them, still in the sixteenth century!!!!
Wh?at was contained in the handover notes by Hon Masebo?
What about your PF policy not to remove street and railway line vending?
1. Just why could PF allow illegality:/railway vending/trading.
2. Unlicensed vehicles (not paying any levies/taxes) competing at taxi ranks with licensed (fee/tax paying) taxis?
On this one, I am very disappointed with PF.
Charity begins at home , are you CLEAN yourself KABUSHI, i mean bathing, your home etc
Blame Sata for the filthy city. you still call him man of action, my foot. remove steet vending, enforce civic laws and don’t use street vending for politial votes and you will have a clean city. for once en pf cadre mushota has said something that makes sense on this one.
On this on, ba PF, like all past Govts, mwalitena sana, sana!
I don’t know why you people in Govt, including Sata himself, can’t see how EXPENSIVE filthy leaving conditions are to the national treasury. Yes, it may be GOOD POLITICS for elections sake, but remember that you may NOT get elected again if you can’t provide good health care for multitudes of people falling sick due to preventable diseases caused by dirty surroundings.
Yes there are hidden costs in being cheap and having a cavalier attitude towards PUBLIC HEATH. And public health begins with the kind of environment (dirty or clean) that citizens live in. Allowing “unlawful trading” of all sorts of merchandize on nearly every street and store corridor is the main contributor to our cities being as filthy as they are!
Zambia comprise of a dirty government, dirty people, dirty cities and towns and all in all, a dirty country. Nothing but garbage is found in most people’ s heads and they are in the majority no wonder garbage is all over everywhere you go in the towns and cities of Zambia. Smart ones are very few and they not tolerated by the dirty ones. The garbage in cities and towns of Zambia reflects the garbage which is paramount in people’ s heads.
It pains me to say it but …..you’re SPOT ON.
We’re trashy people in all spheres of life(with very few folks being exceptions)
Kabanshi,this is the problem of not using brains when coming up with strategies like street vending.You are the dirtiest Ministry in the history of the entire world.
Where on earth can you legalism street vending and illegal trading all over.
You have destroyed The Public Health Act and now your fellow in the Lands Ministry goes ahead and gives mining authority in a national park.
One wonders the level of your education and if you know anything about sustainable development of the nation.
What a share waste of votes in zambia.This can only happen in Zambia where tribes and religions matter instead of brains.
Cry my beloved country Zambia
But who will help clean this country kanshi mwe bantu ?
Joe, let everybody be concerned about the state of our cities and remind our rulers to change the way they are looking at the idea of living in dirt.
In my view, only two people are capable of running the Ministry of Local Government and Housing, i.e. Sylvia Masebo and Nkandu Luo. The rest I doubt. How can you honestly talk about the Keep Zambia Clean campaign when you have shamelessly legalized street vending? Apa pena ba PF, you have failed, lamentably for that matter. We have a beautiful country which is seriously being mis-governed. Epo mpelele.
Bwesheni umufana Luo ku Lacal Government awamye ama cities. Abantu besu bafwa sana ku ndoti. Ciza uli?
I agree- let either luo or masebo run the ministry. This kabanshi (who we don’t know which hole she crawled out from) has just turned this nation into a cesspool. When she was appointed she must have been given the mandate to make zambia as dirty as possible, because no one can convince me that the president does not see the dirt on the streets.
To the media- why don’t you make this issue your number one priority instead of reporting on GBM everyday whom no one cares about!