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Lusaka Mayor Wilson Kalumba
The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has procured eight (08) tipper trucks at a cost of K5.6 million to enhance garbage collection activities in the city.
Lusaka Mayor Wilson Kalumba says there is still more equipment that the council needed to procure and believes the local authority is on course with the procurement exercise, adding that the fleet would enhance garbage collection and other activities that the council undertakes in the city.
Mr Kalumba says at the moment the Council has on average three trucks running for garbage collection and that most of the equipment was obsolete, hence the purchasing of the eight trucks would go a long way in enhancing solid waste management in the city.
He states that the procurement of the eight trucks would make a difference in the garbage collection exercise and the general cleaning of the city, noting the importance of maintaining the momentum of cleaning up the city following the cholera outbreak in Lusaka.
He notes that the momentum would only be maintained with the right equipment and mindset by the residents of Lusaka who would at some point be compelled to pay towards the management of solid waste.
The mayor has encouraged residents of Lusaka to start paying for garbage disposal, adding that a universal garbage collection fee has not yet been determined saying the figure would be determined by how many people would be covered by the measure.
Mr Kalumba says people should start getting ready to pay for garbage collection because it requires money to buy the trucks for use in garbage collection.