By Bida Elly David
A deadly saga has again transpired as Juba City Council and East Africa Go-Green waste management company poured blames and accusations against each other over the rise and fall of waste management in the city.
Some Months ago, the authority of the City Council and Go-Green company inked a deal over the management of garbage in the city to ensure that Juba City was set free from garbage and sicknesses.
The deal was well agreed upon resulting to official handing over of task by the city council to the Company.
Despite the memorandum of understanding signed this year, the city Council blasted East African Go-Green Company for having not carried out their activities to the expectation as some areas in the city are battled with piled garbage hanging with bad odor.
Recently Kalisto Tombe, the director of public health at city council criticized the work of the company saying that they have failed in their mandate after the contract rendered to them by the city council.
He pointed out that despite the fact that they were contracted, the city remained dirty as garbage remained piled and uncollected in most of the city suburbs.
“The Go-Green company has been defeated in exercising their duties as if they were not contracted and paid for. Financial management has been granted to them but their activities are not seen. We severally sat for meetings for problem analysis since Juba as the city is not clean at all” he said.
He underscored numerous complaints from the public concerning piled heaps of garbage along high ways and areas that would have been gathered by the company continue to rise yet no total transformation has been witnessed from their side.
In a defensive statement by the East Africa Go-Green company, Goanar Timothy the Chief Executive Officer of the Company condemned the accusation saying that their services were affected due to lack of constant dumping sites for the garbage after collection.
He said that the expected dumping sites along Nimule and Yei highways have been blocked by some officials from being utilized making it difficult to exercise their mandate fully.
At the same note he said that the company had no grudges with their partners the city Council reiterating that their partnership remained positive and respected no matter how the challenges might strike them passively in whatever way.
The agreement between the city authority and East Africa Go-green Company was initiated to cover all the blocks under the jurisdictions of the city council through proper waste management.
Despite the execution of the project, the company still demands additional dumping sites of the garbage far from the town to avoid environmental contamination causing health concerns to the city residents.