The Lusaka City Council (LCC) ,has urged its residents to be responsible in waste management to ensure good sanitation in the city.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka today LCC Assistant Public Relations Manager Mulunda Habeenzu urged the public to be conscious in the way they package and dispose waste.
Mr. Mulunda noted that some people throw waste during the night in undesignated areas, a situation he said was an offence.
He said waste should only be disposed off at central points for easy collection by the council.
Mr. Mulunda explained that without support and commitment from members of the public, issues of sanitation and good health could not be positively dealt with.
He said citizens should realize that good sanitation was not the responsibility of the council alone but for every resident of the city.
“If people at grassroot levels do not take it upon themselves to be clean and dispose waste at designated areas, it becomes hard for the council to do its job,” said Mr. Mulunda .
Mr. Mulunda said every household should exercise high levels of cleanliness and hygiene by throwing garbage and litter in supplied containers.
He added that members of the public are obliged to subscribe to the council ‘s system to ensure efficiency in the collection of garbage.
Mr. Mulunda further appealed to households to ensure that they pay for garbage collection to help the council speed up the process of collecting waste.
He said the LCC has been facing problems of purchasing fuel and other collection facilities hence the need for people to make payments.
Mr. Mulunda said the council was only mandated to collect secondary waste at central points.
He further explained that the Keep Zambia Clean Campaign can only yield positive results if the community at large ensure that they dispose waste and litter in designated areas.
Indeed generally we zamnbians need to change our attitude towards social responsibility. Much as some areas do no have proper disposal facilities, we pipo are just plain carefree. You find lots of pipo just throwing stuff anywhere anyhow without a care in the world.
We have a beautiful country which we have just trashed ourselves
awe pa Lusaka pa fiko ish!!!!!!!!!!!! its as though people don’t see ati fiko:”>:”>:”>:”>
how long will these pipo do they business under zesco line it’s more than 6 year now what kind of a council do lusaka resident have man do your duty dont just sit in your chair pretending kuli ba Banda like ur are working u dont have the heart for the pipo u fail to build a simple markte the most simpleset thing i ve a lot to say only tha ……. anyway your are lucky u have a job of zero perfomance …..(((( peace!!! love zambia!!!!!!!!
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