By DELPHINE ZULU –
SECRETARY to the Cabinet Rowland Msiska has urged Zambians to exercise maximum cleanliness and take the Keep Zambia Clean campaign seriously, especially that the nation is now in the rainy season.
Dr Msiska said the rainy season comes with various diseases, especially water borne and emphasised that the clean campaign did not require resources but serious participation.
He said at a press briefing in Lusaka yesterday that the instructions by President Edgar Lungu for all to participate in the clean campaign was slowly lagging behind and if left unchecked the entire nation would be flooded with litter and in turn block the drainages.
“This is just a reminder that we are in the rainy season and going into the first week again, let us all participate countrywide that way you can be assured of keeping our cities clean like other countries,” he said.
Dr Msiska said Zambians needed attitude-change, towards keeping Zambia clean and that the same Zambians, when in other countries, did not throw papers anyhow, but once back home, they would start throwing litter any how.
He said Zambia had the capacity to ensure that the country was kept clean by observing cleanliness where ever they were found.