Garbage trucks for the East Africa Go-Green Company. (Photo: JCC).

Juba City Council has blamed East Africa Go Green Company, which it contracted to collect garbage – for failing to execute its duty of keeping the country’s capital clean.

Kalisto Tombe Jube, the Director of Public Health at the municipal council says the Go-Green company has failed to keep Juba clean as promised despite collecting garbage fees from the public.

“Go Green has failed. You asked whether they were paid money or not. They are the ones collecting money. Now they are the ones collecting money,” said Tombe.

“We have even sat in a meeting twice or thrice and asked them where the problem is because Juba is now dirty. One day, I went to His Worship (Mayor Allah-Jabu) and told him this situation is getting worse and is bringing us problems at City Council.”

In January 2022, the City Council contracted the East Africa Go Green company for garbage collection in the capital.

This was after some residents of Juba raised concerns about what they called the “slow and lazy tendency” of the authority in keeping the city hygienic.

Despite the agreement, some members of the public have continued to raise concerns about the recurring accumulation of garbage in the city.

Speaking to Eye Radio’s Sundown Program on Monday, Tombe said the company needs to live up to its standard.

“They are now the ones taking control of collecting money, but they are not collecting the waste. Even when I said Go Green failed, I said this in their presence. I told them that you have failed. If you cannot manage the waste, say you cannot manage.”

Attempts to reach the Managing Director of East Africa Go Green Company were unsuccessful.