{"id":3359,"date":"2020-03-13T13:41:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T13:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2020-03-13T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T13:41:38","slug":"traders-accuse-juba-city-council-of-collecting-money-and-leaving-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/13\/traders-accuse-juba-city-council-of-collecting-money-and-leaving-garbage\/","title":{"rendered":"Traders accuse Juba City Council of collecting money and leaving garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Keji Janefer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some traders at Customs Market are calling upon Juba City\nCouncil to regularly collect garbage in the markets in Juba, the capital city\nof South Sudan which got independent in 2011, was estimated to have 1.5 million\npopulations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some illegal waste dumping is observed on the streets in\nJuba city, and the wastes generated from the households is not properly\nmanaged. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November 2017, \u2018Cleanup Campaign’ was conducted in\nKator Block in Juba city by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA),<\/strong>\n150 residents participated, and illegally dumped waste was removed from the\nmarket area in the block. The collected garbage became 250 backs, and 5 trucks\nwere filled up with this garbage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019 Juba City Council advocated for door to door\ngarbage collection in the city urging people to cooperate with garbage\ncollectors to reduce epidemic diseases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest concern now is that, some traders at custom\nhave accused Juba City Council of collecting money from traders for garbage\ncollection in the market, but they don\u2019t collect the garbage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Najua Kenyi is one of the women selling vegetables at\ncustoms market and she is also a representative of women who sell vegetables.\nShe said Juba City Council only collects money and they don\u2019t want to collect\ngarbage. “Now the market is dirty, the streets are dirty and all the\nmarkets are dirty, this is because no official place for dumping garbage was\nallocated for them. And that is why they are dumping garbage in any empty space\nwithin the market” said Najua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cWhen we want to\ndump garbage, we just dump them in the empty shops\u201d Najua said. Najua added\nthat this issue of garbage is affecting them so much saying, at first they were\npaying 20 SSP for garbage collection and now they pay 100 SSP every day. \u201cIf\nthey collect the garbage there is no problem even the 100 SSP that we pay will\nnot pain us but they don\u2019t cooperate with us\u201d she emphasized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Najua expressed fear over cholera as the rainy season\napproaches and urged Juba City Council to collect garbage and organize the\nmarket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flora Tomalu, who owns a local restaurant in customs\nmarket, said City Council is supposed to collect the garbage even if on weekly\nbasis instead of dumping them inside the market making the market smelly and it\nis not good for human health because this is where all kinds of goods are sold\nincluding food. Flora however, suggested that the government allocate a dumping\nsite for garbage outside in order to keep the market clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Gideon Santo, Head of Workers and Public\nAffairs in Juba City Legislative Council, confirmed to Number Citizen Newspaper\nin an interview that, lack of enough trucks to collect garbage in the city is\nto blame and he said there are new trucks that have been hired by the\ngovernment and they are on the way coming. \u201cGood enough JICA has help us with\nvehicles which will help Juba City Council to continue with its work like before\u201d\nSanto said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that Juba City Council, gold workers\u2019 union and\nblockers have conflict over who should collect money for collecting garbage in\nthe market. He said that is the reason, it is hard for the legislature to\nunderstand who is responsible to collect garbage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gideon urged people who are selling in the market not to\nburn rubbish inside the market because it cause pollution and may even lead to\nburning of the whole market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

He further said the government is going to allocate a\npiece of land where a hole will be dug for dumping garbage and the legislature\nwill summon Juba city council and gold to answer who is to collect garbage in\nthe city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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