Moroto MPs pay residents to collect rubbish in homes
Sep 07, 2011
Legislators from Moroto district on Saturday paid out sh5m to residents for garbage collection in an effort to clean up Moroto municipality.
BY O. Wanyama
Legislators from Moroto district on Saturday paid out sh5m to residents for garbage collection in an effort to clean up Moroto municipality.
The legislators were Moroto Woman MP Iriama Margaret, Looki MP John Baptist and Moroto municipality MP Simon Peter Aleper.
Moroto RDC Nahaman Ojwe, who was the chief guest at the exercise dubbed “Keep Moroto Clean,†encouraged the residents to keep their homes clean.
Ojwe said the residents could earn up to sh100,000 a month by collecting rubbish.
Moroto has been choking with stinking rubbish in almost all corners of the municipality
Ojwe also encouraged residents to dig pit latrines, collect garbage and dispose it of in the right dumping sites.
Aleper told residents that: “With effect from today, hardworking households will earn from collecting garbage in their homes.â€
Aleper said the garbage collected would be weighed and records kept for future payments.
Over 400 bags of garbage, each weighing 100kg, were collected. A bag cost sh10,000.
School children, who collected 50kg, were paid sh3,000 each. Aleper said a similar exercise would be launched in other villages in the district.
Moroto mayor Alex Lemu Longoria thanked the MPs for taking up the initiative to clean the town.
Lemu appealed to the residents to maintain good hygiene to fight the preventable diseases.
Legislators from Moroto district on Saturday paid out sh5m to residents for garbage collection in an effort to clean up Moroto municipality.
The legislators were Moroto Woman MP Iriama Margaret, Looki MP John Baptist and Moroto municipality MP Simon Peter Aleper.
Moroto RDC Nahaman Ojwe, who was the chief guest at the exercise dubbed “Keep Moroto Clean,†encouraged the residents to keep their homes clean.
Ojwe said the residents could earn up to sh100,000 a month by collecting rubbish.
Moroto has been choking with stinking rubbish in almost all corners of the municipality
Ojwe also encouraged residents to dig pit latrines, collect garbage and dispose it of in the right dumping sites.
Aleper told residents that: “With effect from today, hardworking households will earn from collecting garbage in their homes.â€
Aleper said the garbage collected would be weighed and records kept for future payments.
Over 400 bags of garbage, each weighing 100kg, were collected. A bag cost sh10,000.
School children, who collected 50kg, were paid sh3,000 each. Aleper said a similar exercise would be launched in other villages in the district.
Moroto mayor Alex Lemu Longoria thanked the MPs for taking up the initiative to clean the town.
Lemu appealed to the residents to maintain good hygiene to fight the preventable diseases.