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Wallace Ruzvidzo and Harmony Agere
Angola is interested in tapping into Geo Pomona Waste Management’s expertise to ensure clean cities in the SADC member state, the country’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Baltazar Diogo Cristovao, has said.
The diplomat was yesterday led on a tour of Geo Pomona Waste Management’s facility in Harare by the firm’s executive chairman and chief executive officer, Dr Dilesh Nguwaya.
In an interview after the tour, Ambassador Cristovao described Geo Pomona as a “giant” in the industry, hence Angola’s keenness to collaborate.
“This company, Geo Pomona Waste Management, is a giant that has come to fight for the well-being of communities and to see the city clean.
“This is a good initiative that our Dr Nguwaya has for the people of Zimbabwe. In Angola, we also have this problem of waste, and we would want to take the experience from Zimbabwe to Angola to have a healthy and clean city. When we have a clean city, it means our population will be healthy,” he said.
He also called on African countries to unite in supporting projects such as the Geo Pomona Waste Management facility, stressing their importance for the continent.
“All this is for the benefit of the population. I come out from here with a good impression of the work being done through Geo Pomona, and I praise its attitude. I believe we should be united to give this benefit not only to the population of Zimbabwe, but to the African population as a whole. The State only needs people when they are healthy, so Dr Nguwaya is doing his part, and the doctors in the hospitals are also doing their part,” said Ambassador Cristovao.
Dr Nguwaya said the continued endorsement of the waste management facility by several countries serves as motivation to continue scaling greater heights.
“It is very impressive that other countries are coming here and learning the good works which Geo Pomona has done and continues to do.
“It means a lot to the Government of Zimbabwe, and also to Geo Pomona, that we are leading in terms of waste management on the continent,” he said.
