The Livingstone City Council has engaged some companies to help with the collecting of garbage in Livingstone City
Acting Public Relations Manager, Emmanuel Sikanyika, told ZANIS in an interview that the council’s trucks are not enough to manage waste, hence the calling for help from the private sector.
He added that this development would yield beneficial results in waste management because the council has now divided the city into zones.
“We have divided the city into zones and these are the companies that will be responsible for the different zones.
“One of the companies is BBMC Essential Enterprises and it will be managing Zone One; K and C will manage Zone Two. Zone Three will be managed by Citi Mop limited; Kapata Moyo General Dealers will mange Zone Four; Nrosrn will manage Zone Five; Kesley Enterprises will be responsible for Zone Six and Solid Waste Management Unit(LCC) will manage zone Seven,” he said.
Mr Sikanyika assured the public of better services of waste management once the franchise concludes its Memorandum of Understanding.
He has since called on the public to help the council by not dumping garbage anyhow.
Meanwhile, a resident of Maramba Compound, Elizabeth Shambisho, expressed happiness over the council’s plan of collecting garbage.
“ We wanted the council to come up with a system of collecting garbage. Now that they are going to do so, we are ready to pay subscriptions for the waste to be collected from our homes from time to time,” she explained.
Another resident of marimba compound, Phyllis Kapumpa, is also for the idea of subscribing for garbage collection.
“People are ready to pay subscriptions for the garbage to be collected,” she assured.
Mrs Kapumpa added that the garbage dumping is giving her and her neighbours a job of waking up early in the morning to stop people from dumping the waste near their homes.
“We would like the council to do something by punishing people that are found dumping garbage in undesignated areas,” she explained.
Mrs Kapumpa further called on the council to sensitise people about the dangers of throwing litter anyhow.
Meanwhile, Beauty Mwandwe said if the council was to make them pay a subscription fee for garbage collection it should be at a reasonable price for everyone in the area to afford.
Mrs Mwandwe further said collecting garbage effectively will help reduce the number of diseases caused by waste dumping, especially in the rainy season.
ZANIS
Livingstone City managers have been Chimbwis with no plan for a very long time hence the whole “city” looks like a garbage dump site.
The city is dirty partly because of allowing street vending. How can you have clean cities when you allow this lawlessness? As for subscribing for garbage collection, don’t these people know the reason they pay rates? Or maybe they don’t pay in which case the City Council should wake up and enforce the law on rate payments. Looks like these Councils have abrogated their responsibilities because they are scared of politicians.
Help? we pay rates and taxes for councils to provide these services. why do Zambian councils fail to run on their budgets? Should we privatise them? Lstone council and the rest of the cities contract out garbage collection
Garbage disposal is the obligation of every dweller of any place. If you canot do it yourself you pay someone to it for you, simple. Rates are for the land your property is built on.