Juba City Council enters into a waste recycling deal
The Juba City Council Mayor Michael Lado Allah-Jabu said discussions are underway to have a foreign firm establish a recycling waste in Juba.
He said the unnamed company is expected to start the work by mid-year this year.
Juba City has been facing challenges with waste management.
In an exclusive interview with The City Review, Allah-Jabu said his administration has several plans and strategies to improve and develop the capital with a robust waste management system that is expected to create jobs for hundreds of youth.
“I am now in negotiations with a waste recycling company. They will start assembling the plant by April,” Allah Jabu told City Review in an exclusive interview.
“This company will work in recycling all waste, such as plastic, and in return produce fertilizer for agriculture and cooking gas.”
“Instead of throwing the garbage in the places designated for it, the Juba City Council will sell it to this company to recycle and dispose of it as it wishes,” the mayor explained.
Allah-Jabu assured that the new plan will transform the face of Juba, a city choking on waste, at the moment.
“Juba City Council is now working on having three waste collection points in Kator, Munuki and Juba.
“Each locality has its own waste collection company to facilitate and improve the cleanliness of Juba City,” he said.
Currently, JCC has a contract with Go-Green to collect waste. However, Go-Green was dragged to court after it failed to honour an agreement with Simon Trading, the firm that funded them when they were launching their operation in Juba.
Allah Jabu said, Go-Green is here to stay.
“East Africa Go-Green Company can work in the Juba locality, and we will give the responsibility of cleaning the Munuki locality to another company so that there is competition between these companies.”
Allah-Jabu they have since roped in ECOA, a garbage collection firm with six trucks to supplement the work being done by go-Green.
Last year, the city council signed a 10-year deal with Go Green to tidy the city. However, the company was later stopped by the court over what the mayor said was an internal disagreement.
“Go, Green, was suspended by the court due to its internal disputes with its partner, Simon Trading Company,” Allah-Jabu said.
“We, as a government, submitted a request to the court to allow the Go Green Company to resume its work in cleaning Juba city once its case with Simon Trading Company is over because the Juba City Council is also a partner in the Go-Green Company.”
Meanwhile, Allah Jabu has warned Juba residents against emptying raw sewers onto the roads.
Residents of Tong Piny have recently complained about environmental pollution from the nearby hotels and restaurants that empty raw sewage in open places.
Allah Jabu added that the city council is working on a proper drainage system to tackle the perennial deluge in the city.
