Photo taken on Saturday, April 15, 2023, show accumulated heaps of garbage encroaching on the Custom Market Road in Juba. | Photo: Eye Radio.

Juba City Council has issued an order authorizing households and properties to pay 2,000 South Sudan Pounds per month in garbage collection fees around the city.

According to the municipal council, the monthly fee for waste management will be used to maintain newly acquired garbage trucks.

The three trucks donated by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency were handed to the Central Equatoria State Government and the Juba City Council on September 7, 2023.

Martin Simon Wani, who doubles as the Supervisor and Chief Executive Officer of the City Council has given the responsibility to mobilize their residents to ensure the directive is implemented.

“The block in collaboration with quarter councils, will collect 2,000 SSP as garbage fee from each house. This is very important; there will be no free serves in the world, you get the services then you pay for it,” Wani said.

“We are in need of cooperation of citizen in residential area we will make sure that the fee is avertable, so we sustain the operation of the trucks.”

Early this year, the former Juba City Mayor Michael Ladu Allah-Jabu initiated house-to-house garbage fee collection has failed to bear fruit due to the resistance from the residents.

Last year in June the Juba City Council handed over the collection of garbage to East Africa Go Green company.

But after seven months later Juba City Council terminated their contract with a waste management company – Go-Green due failure to carry out the duty.