The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has urged members of the general public to supplement the Council’s efforts to keep Lusaka city clean and healthy by not dumping garbage irresponsibly.
Speaking to ZANIS today, Council Public Relations Manager Chanda Makanta urged the community to subscribe to companies that the Council has subcontracted to collect garbage in the capital city.
Ms. Makanta said it was unfortunate that sections of society were still hostile to the garbage collecting companies.
She said subscribing to the garbage collecting companies would assist in people not dumping garbage anyhow.She said not subscribing and dumping garbage anyhow was not being of any help to the local authority and the community at large.
Ms. Makanta observed that some members of the public do not want to subscribe to the garbage collecting companies but only want to be dumping garbage anyhow especially at night.
She said what people need to know and understand was that dumping garbage anyhow was illegal.
She has since urged members of the general public to report people that dump garbage, to the local authority.
Late Republican President Levy Mwanawasa launched the keep Zambia Clean and healthy Campaign in 2007.
ZANIS
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Bloggers, where are are you? These are life and death matters that deserve your contributions, not just specialising on condemning government all the time. WHERE ARE YOU??
Please congratulate me. I want to make Lusaka clean and i have a short to medium term strategy. No vendors for next three years to five years. Money is available for the project and manpower is there to implement.. plenty of batton happy parapara’s. No politics please…..a clean Lusaka is a plus for the country. I know Sata and his PF led LCC are used to dirty environs but please give me time to clean this cowboy city. Imagine for a moment a clean town centre….no shiiting in plastic bags, selling all sorts of dirty in the middle of the street….
I agree with Makanta. In fact i was so dissapointed with Given Lubinda and Guy Scots utterances on TV last night regarding this issue. Surely, just for the sake of a vote, these two men can sink so low as to condemn what the council and govt have done? Lets be serious. Congrats to the powers that be over this one. Good move.
Ms. Makanta 1 solution is to limit the time of trading then you will have time also for cleaning.