Ndola District Commissioner Joseph Phiri is displeased with the habit of throwing garbage in drainages by residents of Ndola’s Kanyanje and Minsundu areas.
Mr Phiri made the observation when he inspected selected drainages that have been reported to be full of garbage and causing an overflow of water onto to the roads.
“What is happening in most of these drainages in Nkwazi area is that people are throwing garbage in the drainages which is causing a buildup of water and overflowing of water onto the roads. Once there is a buildup of water, due to pressure, the water is going down the road to Kanyanje area with a lot of force where it is breaking wall fences for people’s houses in that area,” he said.
Mr Phiri has since advised residents to desist from throwing garbage in the drainages and to unblock blocked drainages around their houses.
And Area Councillor Fewdays Lumbwe explained that the heavy downpour of rains in the district is affecting Kanyanje area badly because the area is located on a lower level as compared to other areas that are on the upper land in the district.
Meanwhile Ndola City Council Director of Engineering Elias Mwalaba said the council is aware of the situation is assess the best way to rectify the problem.
Mr Mwalaba however noted that the current problem is partly self-inflicted as its main cause is throwing of garbage in the drainages, further advising the public against throwing garbage in drainages.
“We are causing this problem ourselves, let us stop throwing garbage in the drainages. What is happening is drainages are blocked, so water is collecting and due to pressure it’s going down Kanyanje area with a lot of force breaking wall fences in that area. As you have seen, that area is on a lower level. So people in Nkwazi should stop throwing garbage in the drainages,” he said.
Meanwhile, one of the affected residents, Felix Simwanza, whose wall fence collapsed, advised that there is need for the local authority to carry out a massive sensitization of resident against blocking drainages with garbage.
Bring in a white man as a TC, you will see the change in mentality by both residents and council staff.
They don’t throw garbage in drainages. It is the garbage thrown by monkey like citizens who through garbage anywhere anyhow m. When it rains most of that garbage is washed into the drainages. Take these so called ministers and mayors to Rwanda and let them stay their for a month and bring them back. May be we May quicken their dead conscious. Our cities have no Mayors except for moving Zombies. The dirty in our cities tend to support the narrative that we are hopeless fourth world citizens. It is a shame.
I agree. Unfortunately wen muzungu speaks. They listen. Collapse of wall fences is the least of the problem. The larger problem is public health, which had potential of far reaching short & long term effects for communities. I.e. Abana ukulafyalwa abalemana ku ntashi.
An open drain welcomes rubbish from people, rubbish blown by the wind and moving cars. What is the DC’ plan on the drainage system in Ndola? Lets plan ahead, all we do is cut huge pieces of land and sale piece by piece. Build what ever you want, but where is the waste going to go? Who cares, no one.
A well planned drainage system come be used to distribute other services live Electric Power, fibre network, gas….We could do away with electric poles in certain areas.
a. Let’s improve on garbage collection and disposal by investing more in improved landfill or any other garbage compacting systems, and…
b. Stiffen penalties for indiscriminate garbage disposal…
This is what Sir Roy Welensky meant when he said we weren’t ready to rule ourselves. I was recently at Llewelyn Hospital now the Kitwe Teaching Hospital. I don’t know how the patients and workers survive because the general hygiene is very poor. How do they treat patients in such squalor? It’s even better to revert to its original name and ask the British to take care of it. Where is the pride to be Zambian? We have failed and not even Bally will fix it. I heard that Sylvia Masebo was recently at the institution but did she see what I saw? I dropped a tear when I visited Ronald Rolls Hospital in Mufulira! It’s better for Mopani to take it back
The local council should engage our young people to start collecting and bringing ALL that rubbish in bags to the council offices for a FEE. Within a week, there shall be no rubbish at all. What the council shall do with the rubbish is up to them…
Residents take 0ne tenth of the blame. It’s councils responsibility to quickly take note of the garbage and clear it. In Zambia garbage will pile up for months or even years and Noone pays attention. Please go to Rwanda where there is no white mayor and see how the Kagame administration has sanitized the country
#9 Attitude…. how can people who priotize beer drinking know what is happening in our communities. People just go to report for work and not to work. They spend little time there and spend more time in bars.
@7 I was born at Ronald Ross Hospital in 74. My elder sister tells me the bedding was changed every 8 hours, the napkins and feeding bottle
and milk were given free by the Hospital and an ambulance took mum and me home to section 5. Mwebantu how did we turn heaven into hell?
@7 Ayatolla I was born at Ronald Ross Hospital in 74. My elder sister tells me the bedding was changed every 8 hours, the napkins and feeding bottle
and milk were given free by the Hospital and an ambulance took mum and me home to section 5. Mwebantu how did we turn heaven into hell?
Until an environmental, ethics and labour subject is taught in primary schools………
Through which 90 % of Zambians pass……..
You will continue to struggle with indiscriminate garbage disposal, destroying forests and vandalising surrounding………..
People need to be taught these things…….