NEMC: councils should keep environment clean to attract investors

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By Abdallah Luambano, Dar es Salaam

The National Environment Management Council (NEMC) has called on city, municipal and town councils to ensure the environment in their jurisdictions remains safe and clean in order to attract investors.

NEMC Director General Samuel Gwamaka said here a clean and safe environment was one of important considerations for investors.

Investors, he explained, were very mindful of their resources.  Investors do not want undue inconveniences, or run into avoidable problems and suffer loses, he explained, and called on leaders and people to be mindful of that fact too in order to promote economic growth in their areas.

“Local councils are very close to the people and have a lot of powers to make by-laws where necessary to ensure cleanliness and safe environment in order to protect people’s health and their safety.  Now that our country has become a middle-income economy, councils must keep their areas clean and friendly to society in order to attract more investors,” the director general said.

Investments, he said, were necessary because they increase public revenue and generate employment.

Dr Gwamaka gave example of Mbeya City Council as an example of a council that works very closely with NEMC in solving emerging challenges and problems.

He said the Environmental Management Act (EMA), 2004 and its Regulations acknowledge the importance of the council especially on the question of collection and sorting waste. “Waste has to be attended to where it is generated and this is the role of the councils,” he explained, adding that waste that could be recycled would be sorted out right at the point where it was generated.

Dr Gwamaka gave the example of metal and plastic waste, which he said was needed by local industries.  “The council requests for cooperation from all stakeholders to guard and look after the environment.  Let us take statutory and obligatory steps to protect the environment in order to attract investors to our areas,” he appealed.

Public education campaigns are part of NEMC’s statutory obligations.

Tanzania is one of the ten African countries with fast growing economies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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