With waste having not been collected for three consecutive weeks in Sebokeng the Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on ELM to urgently pay for the truck repairs, so that waste removal services can be restored.
According to the DA Sedibeng Municipality Chief Whip, Counsellor Dady Mollo due to the municipality’s failure to pay three service providers for repairing more than 30 broken waste removal trucks, including front loaders and compactors.
“Inkhokheli, Ntlangano and Makume are holding the trucks and the keys to these vehicles at their premises pending payment.”
The municipality has a fixed agreement with these service providers to repair its trucks.
The Emfuleni Municipality has been widely labelled in the media as the worst run municipality in the country with a history of non-payment of debts.
Despite the municipality being placed under a Section 139 (1) (b) Constitutional intervention it remains dysfunctional.
In 2018, its entire fleet of vehicles was repossessed due to non-payment of a R2 billion Eskom debt.
And history is now repeating itself with the municipality having lost control of its waste removal trucks.
It is unacceptable that residents have to continue suffering at the hands of the failing municipality.
