The Mayor of Torit Municipal Council cautions residence against planting tall and long term varieties of crops in residential areas.
Juliana Momoi Choho says keeping the environment clean helps maintain security and getting rid of wrong doers in the town.
‘This order has not been the first of its kind. Every year, we make it as a reminder to the citizens to keep the town so clean especially at this season, where there will be grass growing very tall. Some people are planting tall varieties of food items around their homes. We discourage it for security purpose and to keep the environment clean’, she explains.
The mayor adds that ‘this has been there since even before we were born. The chiefs were working to ensure that the residential areas are clean for good environment’.
Momoi warns that violators will be fined an amount of 5,000 South Sudanese Pounds.
She says some long term and tall crops such as sorghum among others were cut down in Hai Ilangi residential area northeast of Torit town.
‘We disseminated this information to the people that whoever planted this long term variety like sorghum has to pay 5,000 South Sudanese Pounds as a fine. Yesterday when I went to Ilangi I learnt that some of them were cut down and the owners were almost fighting the chiefs and the people who were going round telling them to stop planting or make sure that they just cut out’, said Momoi.
She explains that living in a healthy environment, means living a good health, free of malaria and diarrhoea.
‘People should not be told to clean their homes or their premises this is a routine work’, Momoi adds.
Mayor Juliana Momoi made the remarks in an interview with Radio Emmanuel in Torit on Wednesday.