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VF Sanitation Workers Tell a Messy Story

Image: A garbage bin in the Bruceville community

By Kingsley Emmanuel

Image: A garbage bin in the Bruceville community
A garbage bin in the Bruceville community

THE practice of residents placing human excreta and dead animals in plastic bags and dumping them in and around bins in certain parts of Vieux Fort town is annoying sanitary workers of the Vieux Fort South Constituency Council and Sadoo and Sons Trucking Company.

“Handle with care” is what the workers say they have to do when they come across black plastic bags during their garbage collection. According to them, if they do not adopt such an approach they will be “plastered” with human faeces.

Workers of Sadoo’s Trucking Company, which is contracted to collect garbage in a number of communities in the south, said the problem is rampant in Bruceville and “The Mangue”. They say bins have had to be removed from certain parts of Vieux Fort because of the mess that is being placed in them.

A number of households in Bruceville and “The Mangue” do not have toilets or latrines.

Sanitation workers of the Vieux Fort Council, many of whom are residents of Bruceville (formerly Shanty Town) and “The Mangue” say the problem has become unbearable.

Giraud Epiphane, a sanitary worker of the Council said once he stumbled upon a small uncovered bucket filed with human faeces near a bin at Bruceville and had to leave it where it was and report the matter to his supervisor.

“That’s nastiness, real nastiness. We have to behave like human beings and stop this nastiness. It’s a shame,” he lamented.

He added that sometimes the culprits fill the drains with animal faeces, making his work difficult and frustrating.

“Something needs to be done to stop those people from polluting the environment. They have no consciences… no consideration for council workers. They do not appreciate what we do for the community,” Epiphane said, with a trace of emotion in his voice.

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