Hargeisa, 10 Dec 2013 (SDN) -In an extra ordinary session held today in the city hall, Hargeisa city local Council decided to withdraw license from garbage collection operators in the city due to laxity or irresponsibility by the local garbage collection companies.
Two garbage collection operators Sabowanag and Dhis which provide garbage collection services in Ahmed Dhagax, Mohamoud Haybe and 31 May districts have lost their garbage collection licenses after failing to comply with the council’s directive to continue services using at least 7 custom-made vehicles.
On Saturday, the City Mayor Abdirahman Mohamoud Aideed (Soltelco) has said that his office would no longer condone any more laxity or irresponsibility by the local garbage collection companies.
Currently the collection is made in unhygienic and haphazard manner where make-shift trucks mobilized that are covered with tattered tarpaulins leave half their loads along residential and main streets and endangering children’s lives and other residents’.
Workers, too, unsafely perch up aboard on top of the loads of filth hence put their health in danger.
SDN Hargeisa
