The Juba City Council has introduced a new system to start collecting garbage from house to house to avoid blocking roads with waste and keep the environment clean.
According to Juba City Council, garbage collection will be done twice a week.
The deputy Mayor for infrastructure and development at the Juba City Council Thiik Thiik Mayardit said the council wants to make sure that Juba is clean like any other city.
The deputy mayor warned all the citizens across Juba to abide by the law and stop taking garbage on the roads.
“Anybody who will be found bringing his or her garbage on the road will face the law, for the night shift they are going to organize it after we get the trucks and the trucks will be working at night starting from 12;00 midnight.”
“They will be collecting the garbage until 6;00 AM. From there, the garbage will be transported to the dumping site,” he said.
The collection of the garbage will run for three to 4 weeks before the City Council starts collecting taxes which are made for collecting garbage.
Thiik Thiik added that the first class plot will be paying 7000 South Sudanese Pounds monthly, the second class will be paying 5000 pounds, and the third class will be paying 2000 South Sudanese pounds respectively.
“So each and everyone is supposed to pay 7,000 every month, and the second class also will pay as stated the same with the third class, the ministers are supposed to pay, the vice presidents and also the president each and every house is going to pay the taxes.”
The City Council will divide trucks according to the population in the three blocks.
Kator block will have 6 trucks, Juba block will have 8 trucks, and Munuki will have 10 trucks, those trucks will be carrying garbage twice a week.
The Deputy Mayor calls on the citizens of Juba to cooperate with the City Council to make Juba clean and green.
Lord Mayor Michael Allah-Jabu, of Juba City, said they will introduce a ‘pay town rate” on all properties, whether commercial or residential, as the council now casts its net wide in a new fishing expedition targeting those outside the normal tax bracket.
The tax will target property owners and be collected “door-to-door”, Allah Jabu said.
He said the decision was reached after the council realized that there was a low revenue stream coming from the daily collection by the Juba City Council.