Over a week after the national Independence Day clean-up, heaps of collected garbage lay abandoned in various parts of the city prompting uproar from Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Said Meck Sadick.
As a result, the RC has ordered municipal directors in the city to ensure all the abandoned garbage heaps are collected and taken to the dumpsites.
Nonetheless, speaking to press yesterday in Dar es Salaam, RC Sadick explained that, due to the positive participation by the public, garbage collected during the Uhuru Day clean-up was in excess of 30,000 tonnes.
“On average, the city of Dar es Salaam generates between 2,500 to 5000 tonnes of garbage on daily basis,” he said bringing the success of the clean-up initiative to perspective.
“I call on municipal directors and health officers to hire garbage collection trucks to ensure all the rubbish is collected by tomorrow (today),” the RC ordered and said to achieve the task, the collection should be conducted day and night.
He also directed the Tanzania People Defence Force (TPDF) to avail their trucks to help with the collection.“Even companies contracted for the job were unable to collect all the accumulated waste,” noted the RC.
In a related development, the RC said Ilala Municipality is in talks with CRDB Bank for the purchase of garbage collection vehicles to improve the service.
“In Temeke Municipality, Tanzania Investment Bank (TIB) has shown interest to lend money for the trucks,” the RC added.
On December 10 this year, President John Magufuli, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa led Tanzanians in a nationwide cleanliness exercise that marked Independence Day.
Motivated by President Magufuli’s leadership thus far, particularly his zero-tolerance on corruption and huge cuts in public spending, Tanzanians responded in kind heeding the Head of State’s call to turn celebrations of Tanzania’s 54th independence anniversary to a national cleanliness day.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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