Local security company in Byo clean-up campaign

Melinda Ncube, Sunday News Reporter

Sease Security Services (SSS) on Friday conducted a clean-up campaign in Bulawayo, where they also urged residents to desist from the habit of littering and dumping refuse around the city.

With the Bulawayo City Council’s (BCC) failing to collect refuse due to a number of challenges, there has been a notable increase in dumping sites in undesignated areas, which risk forming breeding grounds for diseases in the Central Business District.

Sease Security Services manager, Mr Jonathan Sanyamahwe, said the campaign seeks to encourage other companies come aboard in assisting BCC maintaining cleanliness in the city.

“Our motive is to join hands with other security companies and the BCC in terms of collecting refuse and picking up litter around the city as a way of maintaining cleanliness.

“We are expecting that by 2022 this practice of dumping garbage everywhere and litter should end because a lot of our officers would be on the ground and we also urge other companies to also assist us in terms of resources to keep the city clean,” said Mr Sanyamahwe.

Littering affects the environment since the ground becomes fertile causing vectors, vermin, and breeding of viral diseases such as trachoma, hepatitis A and gastroenteritis, parasitic diseases that include hookworm, threadworm roundworm as well as cholera and typhoid.