LCC challenged on garbage collection
WE are requesting Lusaka City Council (LCC) to be consistent in garbage collection along Kizito road near Zamshu and Zambeef area, says a resident of the area in Matero constituency, Richard Nyirenda.
Mr Nyirenda expressed sadness that there was uncollected garbage that was piling along Kizito Road posing a serious health hazard to the people in the area.
He told the Daily Nation that residents were living in fear because of the inconsistency by LCC towards garbage collection in the area.
“LCC takes time to collect the garbage that is piling up here at the corner of Kizito Road just near Zambeef and Zamshu.
Zambeef are the ones that put in efforts in collecting the garbage for disposal that is why they built a wall fence around the place so that people should stop throwing garbage here,” he said.
Mr Nyirenda said authorities should apprehend the people that dispose garbage in the night because they were the cause of solid waste piling up outside the wall fence that Zambeef had built.
Another resident, Mercy Ngoma expressed sadness that the local authority was not collecting garbage more often endangering the nearby residents especially children.
“We want garbage to be collected at least once a week so that some diseases can be avoided,” she said.
Meanwhile, Matero Ward 28 councillor Annie Chinyanta said as leaders of that area they were doing everything possible to ensure that garbage was collected in the area.
Ms Chinyanta however complained that the major challenge she had was that the residents in her ward were not taking responsibility of their own garbage.
“We are constantly sensitising people not to throw solid waste anyhow as it poses a serious health hazard, it’s unfortunate that they do not want to do the right thing by subscribing to the Community Based Enterprise.
“They always think its government’s responsibility to collect solid waste for them which is wrong,” she said.