Africa-Press – Botswana. Sowa Town authorities, in a bid to keep their environs clean, have taken a decision to engage in a year-long clean-up campaign.
The initiative, scheduled for the entire 2024/2025 financial year, strives to ensure the soda ash mining town and the surroundings perpetually ‘sparkles’.
Addressing a full council meeting in Sowa Town on Wednesday, Mayor Olifant Mfa explained that the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development had been tasked with devising short and long term strategies to ensure that the country was clean.
As a result, Mr Mfa said his town took up the challenge to play a meaningful role in the initiative of cleaning Botswana by establishing a year’s schedule where clean-up campaigns would be held monthly while the mass clean up would be done on a quarterly basis.
He noted that activities were going to be a collective action by different stakeholders, hence the council had taken the responsibility task them to rotationally lead the campaign’s events.
“Let us be encouraged to take this campaign seriously and motivate our communities to keep their environments clean in order to make Botswana clean,” he said
Furthermore, the mayor highlighted that during the 2023/2024 financial year, districts were funded to procure vehicles which they would use on the ‘Clean Botswana’ campaign with Sowa allocated over P2 million to procure a tipper truck and front loader.
He added that the tender for procurement of the tipper truck had been awarded while the front loader tender was at the final stage of evaluation.
He said the vehicles were going to assist in cleaning the town and ease the nagging burden of moving garden waste. Moreover, informed the house that for some time a clinical waste vehicle had not been operational due to mechanical faults and urged fellow councillors to engage private companies to assist while the council was still attending to the vehicle faults.
On other issues, the mayor urged fellow civic leaders to encourage their electorate to take their pets for rabies vaccination, reminding them that the disease, although preventable, was deadly, hence it was important for people to take their pets for vaccination in order to save their lives and those of the people.
He further informed them that government had revised movement protocols for live cloven-hoofed animals and fresh products in the disease control zone 3b, which is Nata and surrounding areas as well as in 3c being the areas of Sowa, Maitengwe, Nkange and Masunga.
He pointed out that such areas had been reinstated to green status after movement was restricted due to massive buffalo incursion last year.
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