Bulawayo mayor, David Coltart has implored municipal and national police to enforce by-laws against littering to help keep the city clean.

Speaking during a clean up exercise in the city, he said it was important to enforce anti-littering by-laws, and to educate residents on the health imperatives of keeping cities clean.

His comments dovetailed with President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s anti-littering crusade, which has seen the government declaring a special day for people to clean up their environments.

“Whilst the clean up campaigns are good to keep our city clean, we need to encourage residents not to litter in the first place. That has to be done by persuasion and coercion,” Coltart said.

“The police and our own municipal police must start enforcing our own by laws,” he said.

Bulawayo, like many towns and cities in the country, is battling to dispose of mountains of uncollected garbage which health authorities say is the source of the rampaging cholera outbreak that has hit many areas.

New Ziana