Solid waste management: KCCA acquires (10) new garbage trucks, (5) cesspool emptier and (5)
tractors.
Kampala capital
city Authority (KCCA) has today 31st March 2023, commissioned 10 new garbage compactor trucks, 5
skip leader trucks, 5 cesspools emptier and 5 tractors as part of the wider
effort in solid waste management in the city.
The commissioning event which was held from Katale primary School play ground was attended by lord mayor, the area Mp Hon. Joel Ssenyonyi, Executive Director, Division Mayor, City Ministers, Local leaders and KCCA Technical staff.
The 3new garbage
compactor trucks bring the number to 22, meaning averagely, each of the five
divisions of Kampala shall have at least 4 trucks.
While speaking to
press ED Kisaka said that Population and economic growth brings about an
increase in waste generation. Currently, Kampala generates 2, 500 tones of
waste daily.
According to the procurement
office, Ed Kisaka says that the Cesspool empties were purchased at 1.4b, Garbage compactor trucks at 3.7b and
tractors at 501m which totaled up to approximately 5.5b.
She also revealed
KCCA’s Plan on the newly acquired landfill in Dundu Mukono.
“Recently, we
aquired 135 acres of land in DUNDU Mukono to setup a waste recycling plant and
relieve the Kitezi landfill” – Kisaka .
Kisaka also noted
that in collaboration with the ministry of health, a medical waste handling facility
is being setup there, occupying 5 of the 135 acres. This facility is now at
roofing stage. – she said.
The grand plan for
KCCA at the Dundu recycling and dumping site is to build access roads, fence of
site, fence of the site, install utilities, and build office block, waste
treatment and at least one working face/landfill call.
KCCA also announces
its action plan to have equitable and universal access to safely managed sanitation
and hygiene in the city by 2030 through and these include :-
Establishment of robust
citywide environmental management coordination, regulation monitoring and
pollution management system.
Establish a responsive
community based and public health surveillance and education system.
Increase in safely
managed municipal waste from 50% to 80% by 2025 and increase in safely managed faecal
sludge from 60% to 80% by 2025.
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| Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago today launching one of new Sanitation trucks |
while launching the project, the lord mayor, Erias Lukwago said that he was glad that the decision taken by the City Political Leadership to allocate a budget for this particular purpose in order to alleviate the Sanitation challenge has finally bore fruit.
He said that the efforts to sort out the Sanitation challenge is currently not well institutionalized with no funding and heavy reliance on donations and support from individuals like Bill Gates and Bloomberg, whom he often has to go begging for funding as was the case recently in Abidjan.
He called on Central government to walk the talk and provide funding for the City's initiatives, like the commissioning of a new modern dump site at Dundu Mukono and Policy of having at least one garbage truck per Parish to effectively sort out the Sanitation challenge.
The Lord Mayor assured all the Sanitation workers of security of tenure adding that none shall lose their job in implementation of a new Policy to award City cleaning contracts to Community based teams a position that was reiterated by the Executive Director.
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