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THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has invited stakeholders to a national clean-up programme, which started yesterday and ends tomorrow.
It is focusing on litter picking along road servitudes throughout the country.
EMA has invited all transporters, communities, business associations, fast food outlets and vendors to participate, and said that mobile awareness was being raised to sensitise the public.
Littering is an offence and those who participate could be prosecuted. The clean-up programme is running under the theme ‘Clean and Litter Free Road Servitudes – Our Responsibility’.
“Please feel free to pick on any road servitude to clean during this period. The public is further reminded that littering is an offence and perpetrators will be prosecuted.
“Activities being undertaken include roadshows and mobile awareness to sensitise the public on the need to desist from littering along road servitudes,” said EMA in a statement. The agency said awareness roadblocks were also critical at strategic points to reach out to the motoring public with anti-littering messages and prosecute public passenger transporters without vehicle litter bins.
“If we all join hands and diligently work towards this worthy cause, we will achieve a clean, safe and healthy environment, and ultimately sustainable cities and communities, according to the Sustainable Development Goal number 11, while leaving no one and no place behind,” said EMA.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter