By Mustapha Jarju
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Brikama Area Council, Lamin Singhateh, in a recent engagement with the press corps, explained the nature of the Brikama Area Council’s Seneya Project.
According to PRO Singhateh, the Chairman of the BAC, Yankuba Darboe, came up with the beautiful idea to have a meeting with the private waste collectors whereby they reach a conclusion and have an agreement. Noting that all the trucks/vehicles that came to the council to collect waste, the BAC did not buy even a liter of fuel for them.
He added that the BAC is not paying the salaries of any of the staff of those private waste collectors (trucks) nor does the council spend any money on them. “Even if any of the trucks get a problem it is the responsibility of the truck owner to maintain it,” he disclosed.
“The only obligation that the BAC has in this agreement is to give routine to these garbage collectors, give them the authority, too, to collectors garbage at D15 per bag of rice and this is across the board,” he noted.
“If it is two bags that will cost you D30 and there is another type which is 40 liters container that is D20 and 120 liters also a container at D40 and it is the highest,” he pointed out.
He further said that in every D15 from a bag of garbage, the council owns only D5 and the D10 is for the truck owners which are from that money they use to settle payment for their staff and the maintenance of the vehicle.
PRO Singhateh, therefore, called on all truck owners to come on board to take part in this development and boost the business of entrepreneurship in garbage collection and create job opportunities.