Please help in making our living areas better – – Chiefs’ barazas could help!
There are many different issues in modern day Society. Some are challenges that result from ignorance and blind adherence to things or practices that have been with us for years.
For instance, many of us have been brought up believing and shown that garbage should be burnt to keep our environments clean.. So every time we tidy our compounds, houses and even business premises, we collect all that we deem as waste and heap it to some corner or other places and pap! we then light up a fire.
Sadly some of the ‘waste’ we light up include organic matter such as crops residue, foods waste including leftover foods. Some of the green organic ‘waste’ evidently cannot burn and so it lies bare as affront to our eyes and the general environment.
We also burn light & heavy plastics that can give fierce fires which then emit pungent fumes, smoke and soot that flies off to the skies and atmosphere but not without harming the general environment including domestic animals, plants and people.
Plastic waste collectors, on the hand, have in recent years started burning ‘left over’ (after selling off what is bought and considered valuable) materials and especially those containing traces of metal components so that they can recover the metals for sale after the plastics are fully fire consumed.
The fires produce very pungent and irritating fumes, smoke and soot that are harmful not only to the general environment but also to human beings and animals.
If such people became cognizant of the harm they cause our earth and the environment through the soot, fumes and smoke that has greenhouse effect gases (GHGs), they possibly would think twice before lighting up such fires.
But who is really administratively responsible for the areas where such anomalies are happening except the chiefs, village elders and members of the Tanzania – borrowed ‘Nyumba Kumi’ model and initiative?.. .
But are they (the assumed community leaders) in the first place aware of the anomalies? Are they aware that garbage is strewn all over in the residential areas they are in charge of?
Are they aware that so so much could be achieved and errors be corrected and that knowledge and enlightenment could be shared if they regularly called out for Chiefs’ Barazas or meet- the- people meetings or tours in their areas of jurisdictions?
Couldn’t their work and roles be more meaningful and effective if they could balance their office or in-office duties and tasks with the challenge of moving out of offices and doing practical work of meeting and even getting to know their constituents or ‘subjects’?
The chiefs could also easily partner with bodies such as NEMA (national environs management authority) & related environmental matters institutions to create more and better awareness on environmental management issues and strategies?
Interacting more with citizens could also make security issues and challenges easier to tackle.
