Additional trucks and manpower to help clean up Nasinu

Additional trucks, machinery and manpower is being injected by the Ministry of Local government to help with its clean up campaign in the Central Division especially Nasinu which has over 300 loads of waste now on the roadside.

Permanent Secretary for Local government, Dimity Fifer says the clean up campaign in the Central Division involves at least 8 trucks to complement the 76 waste bin pick up points.

She says government trucks from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries are now complementing the trucks engaged through the municipal councils.

Fifer says with latest funding from the Ministry of Health, further equipment and waste bins will be online so that the clean-up can gather speed this week.

She adds the exercise involves three loading and cleaning teams from the RFMF and each team consists of 18 personnel.

The current collection is continuing from Makoi.

Fifer says while people are to be congratulated for heeding the clean up call, they ask for patience as there is more waste out on the streets than for normal council waste collection services.

She says discussions are being pursued with private sector companies on additional support with trucks and equipment.

Fifer says the clean up campaign was originally planned as a ten day exercise but the inclement weather and the huge response to the call for a clean-up will see this pushed out to at least a two week period.