By MN Reporter
Residents Of Osaka Market Now Want Heap Of Garbage Relocated From Their Area.
The business Community at Osaka trading centre in the suburbs of Migori town are up in arms against the County Government of Migori for failing to clean a heap of garbage at the place for more than five months now.
They said despite paying taxes and levies every day, sanitation at the trading ground has continued to deteriorate badly thereby exposing them to the risks of contracting various opportunistic ailments.
Led by the Osaka business community chairman Josephat Juma Kisaka, they threatened to stop paying levies if the garbage which has become an eye-sore and a health hazard to them and their customers is not removed immediately.
Mr. Kisaka said that they have on many occasions complained to the market officers in charge of garbage collection but in vain as the heap of garbage continue to grow in the area, attracting flies and other dangerous animals such as wild-dogs and cats.
He said the bad smell being emitted from the putrid mountain of garbage was scaring and making life for every human being around uncomfortable.
“We want value for the levies charged on us and in the absence of good services we shall have no option but to stop all payments to the County government,” he warned.
Kisaka said that those working in the various sectors of hairdressing, furniture, food kiosks, small micro shops and other hardware merchandise have resolved not to pay taxes to the County Government until their issues are resolved and normalcy returns at the busy streets of Osaka, the hub of many small scale businesses.
Another trader Billy Osodo said that the businessmen at the busy Osaka have on many occasions been law abiding and have been paying taxes promptly.
What is lacking are the services that match the levies charged on them, he explained adding that the service delivery gaps being witnessed at the place have never been taken seriously by the concerned County Government officers who have the mandate to collect garbage, clean towns and streets.
“They are very fast in asking for the levies but very inept in offering quality services and we now tell them that enough is enough we will not pay for nothing,” said Mr. Osodo.
