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Posted - 04 Aug 2017 : 11:09:47
Halifa visits Agency for Waste Management in Oslo
By Kebba Jeffang
Foroyaa: August 3, 2017
http://www.foroyaa.gm/archives/16930
 The member for Serekunda constituency Halifa Sallah on Wednesday, 2nd August visited the Agency for Waste Management center in the Norwegian city, Oslo as part of his European tour. He will be meeting Gambians and well-wishers in the diaspora through seminars.
Speaking after concluding the visit to the waste recycling plant, Sallah said “I was compelled by a sense of mission to visit the waste management site in Oslo. The experience reminded me of what I left behind. Bakoteh dumpsite and the indiscriminate dumping of waste after the set setal of Saturday occupied my mind throughout the tour of the facility.
“I hope the lesson gathered would be utilized and shared with the Council and the Ministry of the Environment so that, the Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) and the Ministry of Environment would begin to take steps necessary to address the problem of waste disposal,” Sallah said.
Landing Nyassi, Norwegian based Gambian said Gambia has a huge waste or rubbish disposal problem which has resulted to serious environmental hazards affecting residents close to the main dumpsite at Bakoteh, He hopes Sallah’s trip will help the authorities in addressing the problem.
Meanwhile, he said the parliamentarian will preside over a seminar on the 3rd of August with the diaspora youth in Oslo on ‘how to enhance dialogue and communication between youths and parents.’ He said Sallah would have a meeting with the Norwegian red party in the morning at Oslo City Council.
On Friday, August 4th Mr. Sallah will be visiting the Norwegian Parliament to meet with the leader of foreign affairs and defense committee. On Friday he will grace another seminar that is going to be qualitative dialogue with the Gambian diaspora community in Oslo on the theme “National Reconciliation, Justice and Democratization in the New Gambia.’
Mr. Sallah will continue from Norway to Sweden, Denmark and Germany before his return to The Gambia in late August.
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Posted - 04 Aug 2017 : 14:56:08
Sallah said “I was compelled by a sense of mission to visit the waste management site in Oslo. The experience reminded me of what I left behind. Bakoteh dumpsite and the indiscriminate dumping of waste after the set setal of Saturday occupied my mind throughout the tour of the facility."
That small paragraph above NOW shows that the Gambian thinking of throw it on the ground or somewhere other than my place MAY be changed by politicians,if achieved they would have taken ACTION instead of the usual talk talk,only one problem,GOOD MANAGEMENT and MONEY, who will pay ? Waste that cannot be recycled and has to end up in landfill is charged at £84.40 per TONNE (in England,UK)or Nearly D5,000
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THE POINT is also concerned:
Friday, August 04, 2017
The heartbeat of our environment has become an eyesore these days as most of the street junctions and outlets in town are inundated with dirt and all manner of filthy things deposited there during last Saturday’s set settal.
Although similar situations were set in during the Jammeh days, the new Gambia under Barrow seems to be aggravating this manner of entertaining filthy and hazardous environment in our midst, as since Saturday we have continued to live with harmful dirt on the streets of our city centre.
When the ill-prepared-for set settal was announced, people who got the news and those who later on caught air of the news managed to clear their immediate environment only to deposit or dump their sacks of dirt and unwanted items at nearby junctions on the main highways off their homes, thereby creating piles of garbage that have been lying down there throughout the week to the detriment of our health and hygienic psyche.
This ugly sight must be cleared and sanity allowed to prevail, for which the municipal or city councils and, by extension, the local government and lands ministry are squarely responsible.
But why are they not, that the people in the communities would have to live with the dirt and rubbish and risk being infected by the foul smell, dangerous pathogens and polluting substances oozing out of the garbage in the localities.
In fact if there had been strategically located dustbins and large trash cans across the cities and localities, with regular clearing of dirt, depositing and piling such rubbish on the streets would not have been the situation. People would have been using those dustbins and trashcans to deposit their dirt and rubbish.
But it seems the government is oblivious of the fact that a nation or society needs to cater for or have sufficient dustbins and dumpsites across its length and breadth where the people would deposit or dump their dirt and rubbish for ‘other use’.
We as a people cannot afford to live without such facilities in our environs, as it leaves much to be desired and tells a lot about the health and sanitary consciousness of our government or better still our municipal or area councils.
So we are pleading with the authorities responsible for health and sanitation and for keeping the city clean that they are duty-bound to come to the aid of the people by doing all they could to clear the heaps of garbage on the streets of our surroundings, and to really ensure our localities are inundated with dustbins rather than with dirt and filth, which are menacing and life threatening.
“Keep the city clean."
The Point
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/living-with-dirt-in-the-city-centre |
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