Council needs landfill


By Chali Mulenga
 The Livingstone town clerk Vivian Chikoti has revealed that her council needs about K35 billion to ensure that it get a new engineered landfill in the city.
The Livingstone council chief executive officer was speaking in Livingstone during a press briefing at Ocean Basket, on the solid waste management forward, she said that the current landfill is not properly situated as it is a threat to the airport as the birds scavenge in the area thus posing threat to the planes thus the need to relocate it.
Ms Chikoti was quick to note that the council had put in place measures to ensure that the birds are controlled.
The Livingstone town clerk said that there has never been any resource to ensure that the damp site is properly managed.
“We would like to get funds for the project so that it can help us to manage the landfill and we are working together with ZEMA,” she said.
She added the Livingstone city council was seeking support from the office of the provincial permanent secretary and also from the ministry of local Government.
“We want to increase on the number on fleet of equipment so that we can clean up the city,” she said.
Ms Chikoti explained that her council need 12 trucks to effectively collect garbage as it only had 2 trucks that often break down.
The Livingstone Town Clerk said that her council has stepped up measures of keeping the city clean ahead of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation general assembly UNWTO set for August 2013.
Ms Chikoti said that the council has also increased the number of the women that clean the streets from 36 to 52.
She explained that her council had previously engaged the private sector to help in the collection of solid waste in the township but the collection of waste charges was a challenge from the residents.
Ms Chikoti said that the council had learnt lessons on the collection of waste charges and that system has been put in place to ensure effective collection of the revenue.
She said that if every institution paid its waste charge then it would easy for the local authority to collect and manage the waste.
Ms Chikoti called on the institutions to ensure that they manage the waste that is at their door step.
 She said that the council in partnership with the community has come up with a competition for the cleanest house.
She said that her council would launch a cleanup campaign on the 24th of January, when on that day the whole city will be cleaned up.
She paid tribute to the stakeholders that had been instrumental in helping in cleaning up the city.
And from the office the provincial medical office, the chief environmental health officer Dr Emmanuel Kooma said that there is need to strengthen public health sector ahead in the province.
He said that his office would second 10 health inspectors not only to Livingstone council.
Who is also public health research analyst, Dr Kooma said the inspector would help enforce the various legislations that pertain to public health.
He said that the people should look beyond the UNWTO so that people, so that the city can be free from disease that can be controlled.
”We are going to provide leaflets, carrier bags, we want to work the community in the markets,” he said.
Zambia environmental management agency (ZEMA) senior inspector Teddy Daka said that his organisation would intensify the monitoring and sensitization of the management of waste in the communities. 
He commended the council for coming up with the initiative of the land fill.
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