Press Statement - BPRA Commends BCC

PRESS STATEMENT

Date:               5 March 2012

Contact:         Rodrick Fayayo

                        Coordinator

                        Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA)

BPRA Commends Bulawayo City Council (BCC)

Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA) would like to commend the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for reverting to the previous system of collecting domestic refuse weekly. In recent years, the local authority has been collecting domestic refuse monthly leading to residents resorting to illegal dumping of refuse which has posed a health threat to Bulawayo. BPRA also applauds BCC for availing disposable plastic bags at the Revenue Hall and at housing offices across the city at a reasonable price.

BPRA believes actions such as the one that the local authority has taken are of paramount importance in order to avert diseases such as cholera and typhoid that have claimed numerous lives in other areas in the country. Such actions are also necessary for Bulawayo to revert to its previous position as not only the cleanest city in Zimbabwe, but one of the cleanest in the region.

BPRA would also like to assure the city council that it will continue with its efforts to encourage residents to abstain from illegal dumping of refuse, primarily through an Environmental Management Act training course that it is teaching in all of the city’s 29 wards as part of its Residents Leadership Development Programme. BPRA will also continue to advise residents against littering.