The Chief Executive Officer of Kerewan Area Council has disclosed that the dream of sustainable development cannot be achieved without positive holistic move towards proper waste management.

Tamba Kinteh made this revelation at the launch of Council’s Waste Management Strategy in Kerewan that is tailored to suit waste management and disposal problems in the North Bank Region’s towns and lumo villages.   He said the newly established strategy aims to complement the efforts of the monthly Operation Clean the Nation, which is initiated by President Jammeh.

In the North Bank Region, CEO Kinteh said his Council would be rotating every Saturday   from one town to the other or lumos where they would work hand-in-glove with communities to clean their environment.   “We would want to involve all community members as potential stakeholders,” he said.

He added that the Council has spent thousands of Dalasi in the purchase of cleansing materials, including wheelbarrow, rakes, shovels, garden forks, gloves, masks, etc. He then noted that they would hire tractors to collect waste during the clean-up exercise in towns and lumo concentrated areas.

Lamin LM Marr, Kerewan Area Council’s Development Officer, said it is the primary responsibility of the Council to provide basic service for the tax payers'. He revealed that the newly developed waste management strategy will address waste or garbage collections in all the growth centres like Farafenni and Kerewan, and other expanding communities and lumo centres.

He, on behalf of the Council appealed to the UN system, NGOs and other international and philanthropist organisations to help and provide them with tractors, and other materials that would enable them to operate effectively.

Bakary Seckan, KAC Financial Controller also appealed to the communities of North Bank region to take this noble initiative as their own. He noted that the needs of the tax payers' is the highest priority on the Council’s agenda and assured that the Council will try to satisfy the communities in terms of service   delivery.