By S. Siapha Mulbah
The Mayor of Monrovia, John-Charuk Siafa, is calling on residents to take responsibility of keeping the city clean and green to live a refreshing life, healthy and sound, from the love of nature around them.
Mayor Siafa said, having a clean and green Monrovia for the betterment of the life of all citizens and occupants, requires collective efforts and collaboration between the city government, the communities, and the national government, to have the necessary mechanisms to have the needed things done.
Speaking over the weekend when the mayor took the city government to the streets for the re-launch of the first Saturday cleaning up campaign across the city, he said Liberians will have to adapt to a system of accepting the best of positive changes where necessary, and desist from promoting the irresponsible act of piling garbage along basic streets and trashing unwanted and used items anywhere around.
According to him, the evolving world is not witnessing or experiencing things that are happening in the city of Monrovia because the citizens in others countries are collaborative in the cleaning of their cities and upholding of their different city ordinance mechanisms.
He called on the general public to control the spreading of waste across the country’s capital city, so that visitors and others that are on basic missions in Liberia can feel the refreshing nature of the earth and celebrate being in Liberia, like it is done in other parts of the world.
He said the MCC is challenged in recent times with the way citizens have engaged in the constant dumping of dirt in the streets, and if action is not taken, the country will not make progress because there will be no resources to continue repeating the same actions of the past.
“Where in the world will you see people dumping dirt on the main road? When we clean it, in no time, it comes back. We have to change this attitude in order to make progress and this requires everybody’s attention. We can clean and maintain our city with our own work we do, so let us change that wrong mentality,” he appealed.
He asserted that the new leadership of the City Government of Monrovia is committed to working with every actor in ensuring that the city is kept the best way, taking into consideration the rule of law, cleanliness, welfare of employees, as well as ordinance, among others.
The MCC has re-launched the regular first Saturday cleaning up exercise to be observed in the city by all residents, businesses, and institutions.
The mayor stressed that it is important for every citizen to get involved in the monthly exercise.
According to MCC, the solid waste team has been visiting significant waste hotspots to solve the present garbage crisis in the city, and the monthly cleaning up exercise will buttress the effort and have citizens owing to the fact that Monrovia is a belonging to them, making them responsible enough to have it clean and green.
