Gobabis rushing to ‘clean-up house’ before Miss Namibia
Three children squat and defecate among a heap of rubbish, a goat chews on a discarded plastic bag and an elderly woman picks up something from the trash to take home. This is the scene that greets visitors along the dusty streets of townships such as Kanaan at Gobabis. At night, the streetlights remain off. […] The post Gobabis rushing to ‘clean-up house’ before Miss Namibia appeared first on The Namibian .
Three children squat and defecate among a heap of rubbish, a goat chews on a discarded plastic bag and an elderly woman picks up something from the trash to take home.
This is the scene that greets visitors along the dusty streets of townships such as Kanaan at Gobabis. At night, the streetlights remain off.
“Because the youth steal the cables to buy alcohol,” mayor Elwin Gariseb says. The town’s constituency councillor, Liberius Kalili, agrees.
“The municipality will clean today, but tomorrow you will see garbage lying around,” Kalili says.
The Namibian visited different areas at Gobabis, including Kanaan A, B, C and U, which all have the same litter problem.
“I don’t know what is with residents now. These things did not happen in the past,” Kalili told the publication last week.
Kalili said Gobabis residents have a tendency of throwing rubbish around for no reason.
