Kigali city waste management specialists are currently having sleepless nights identifying where a tentative waste site will be allocated.
Several sites have been visited both in Nyarugenge and Gasabo Districts and they are yet to give technical report for approval.
“We are actually from visiting one of the sites, we have identified so we are going to put down all technicalities for considerations before approving one site,” John Mugabo the waste Management Expert has told IGIHE.com by cell phone.
The tentative site will be used instead of Nyanza waste site in Kicukiro District before the permanent waste site will be identified in the Kigali City Master Plan.
Last week, the Prime Minister Pierre Damien Habumuremyi gave an ultimatum to Kigali City Authorities to look for another site and close the current Nyanza based waste site.
“What we are now doing is getting a tentative waste site so as to shift from that of Kicukiro District to either Nyarugenge or Gasabo Districts, we will get one site before Kigali master plan is fully implemented,” Mugabo added.
Nyanza garbage site which is a home of tones and tones of garbage dumped there had become a health hazard for the nearby dwellers with risk of getting contagious diseases.
Nearby dwellers had begun complaining to authorities that when the rain falls, it makes the whole area stink and water carrying garbage through residents.
Former Mayor William Ntidendereza had warned over possible health hazards that could emanate from Nyanza garbage site.
“Although there is no study yet conducted on its likely health hazards, we can’t rule out possibility of it being a threat to nearby residents,” Ntidendereza said in 2007 when he was still a mayor before replaced by the incumbent Jules Ndamage in 2008.
Though there is no detailed study of the Nyanza garbage dumping site, between 300-350 tons per day.
It was officially opened as the cities dumping site in 2003 having started in 1988.
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