By Hassan Osman Kargbo
The Deputy Chief Administrator of the Bo City Council (BCC), Henry Powell has disclosed that waste management issue is key in the council’s mandate as the BCC remains highly committed to seeing that the city is clean for its inhabitants. Powell made this statement whiles recently supervising a massive cleaning exercise within the municipality and its surrounding communities.
“Mechanically, the BCC has been challenged in its waste management drive” he revealed. The BCC Deputy CA furthered that the council currently has only one waste fleet that is serving over 200,000 people in the Bo municipality, which he described as a huge challenge faced by the BCC’s waste management team.
Regardless of these challenges, the BCC has undertaken massive cleaning exercise across its municipality. According to Deputy CA, Powell, thorough cleaning exercise within Bo will target the clearing of garbage at skip locations such as Manjama, Gbongo and the Kandeh town markets respectively. He explained that they had already cleared other markets like the Sober 1 and the New London Park within the Bo Municipality.
DCA Powell informed that the process began last week and will continue within the different market and waste skip within the municipality, adding that waste management issue is key in the council’s mandate and the BCC is committed to see the city clean for its inhabitants.
According to Musa McCarthy, a resident of Bo, the issue of waste management has become alarming in the Municipality and they are happy that the council has taken swift measures to combat this menace. He noted that over the years, Bo has been one of the cleanest cities in the country but due to the torrential rain falls in the city and other human activities within Bo and its environs, waste issues have become rampant in the municipality.
“The challenges exists but the council’s administration is putting its best in play to ensure we surmount those challenges and deliver good services to our resident”, Powell said.
