By Charlie Ligomreka

Machinga, August 10, Mana:  Machinga District Council, Environmental Officer, Andrew Kaitano Hamza has called on fellow council members of staff to keep council premises and all market places clean to ensure that plastic and other forms of garbage are properly disposed of for better work and trade environment.

The environmental district officer made the call as he led council staff in a clean-up exercise of the council headquarters premises and said the clean-up exercise should be an obligation for a better environment. 

The exercise was part of a campaign which State President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera introduced for local councils and other entities plus the general public to keep doing as a norm to keep  work places, market places and other public places cleaner of liter and other garbage.

“This is our council and everywhere we live is our place. There is need to take clean up exercises as a norm to keep our work place cleaner,” Hamza added as he and fellow council members of staff took blooms to clean Machinga Council Headquarters premises clean.

He also called on the council staff to exercise cleanliness in their respective homes to ensure they live in a better clean environment at home and at work.

One of the council staff Aisha Lupanga described the clean-up exercise as ideal and relevant for conducive work environment saying, “Time is now for us to make our environment clean and to make Liwonde township liter and garbage free,”

She therefore, expressed hope that the council management will keep on championing the clean-up campaign at district level to instill a spirit of cleanliness among council staff, Liwonde town residents and among people that trade in various market places for sustainable cleaner environment.

In one of the clean-up exercises, Machinga District Council staff mobilized Liwonde central market vendors to clean up the market place and vendors welcomed the exercise and pledged to keep it going for a cleaner business environment.