Wein Town – According to F. Solunteh Horrace, supervisor of the Landfill site in Wein Town, the Monrovia City Corporation contracted a firm who has been delinquent and using ineffective machines to clear the landfill.
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“This problem came about when we had a contractor who goes by the name Z.B.J and he made us lose the haul road.
“He was here to push, compile and do covering under [as part of] the project but the machine he was using was not that ineffective and even sometimes he will not work one or two days because of breakdown. So based upon that the dirt was pouring in and pouring in,” Horace explains to reporters during a tour of the site.
He said drivers of trucks that transported the waste to the landfill site were just disposing of the waste anywhere.
“We had an operation before and during that time drivers when they come, they will just dump and dump and dump,” he said.
When asked what he did to control the proper disposal of waste or stop the drivers from doing what they did at the Landfill site, he said when ZBJ was contracted, the truck drivers didn’t follow his instruction all the time.
Moreover, Horrace stated that on a daily basis the number of trucks that came at the site vary between six to eight per day.
He told FPA that his role at the site is to properly dispose of waste and make sure that “the bulldozer does proper pushing and compacting at the same time managing the day to day affairs of the site”.
According to him to fix the problem, the city corporation must intervene by sending engineers to inspect the site and make suggestions.
“Just the other day, an engineer was sent here from MCC and he started some exercise already. And we told them that this is an emergency situation,” he said.
The touring of the Wein town landfill comes a day after Monrovia city Mayor Jefferson Koijee told a press conference that the corridor of the landfill site was in a deplorable condition because of the raining season.
Mayor Koijee claimed that the situation was the reason why all of the transfer stations were filled with waste, making the city overwhelmed with garbage.