Sat, 11 Feb 2017 09:58:05 +0000 PLANS to make waste management fees compulsory for Lusaka residents through Zesco bills by the Lusaka City Council (LCC) has been strongly opposed by the Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD). ZCSD executive director Lewis Mwape said that in as much as the local authority would come up with successful ways of collecting funds from every household in the city, it would be difficult for them to collect garbage from everyone. He said in an interview with the Daily Nation that collecting funds from people without collecting their garbage would be tantamount to looting. Mr Mwape wondered how the City Council would do that when it did not even have a proper register of households in the city. He questioned how LCC would take stock of the households from which to collect waste if it did not have proper records. Mr Mwape advised the local authority to first […]
