The Addis Ababa city administration is to import ten modern street cleaning machines to help clean the streets of the Ethiopian capital.
The agency has received an offer of 37 million for the supply of the machines after floating an international tender a few months ago according to Getachew Ambaye, General Manager of the City Administration.
The administration is still in the process of evaluating the proposals he noted. The machines are expected to clean the major roads and places that are difficult for human cleaners to clean said Getachew.
It is expected that one cleaning machine can clean up to five kilometers a day and it is hoped that the administration will import more machines after starting off with an initial ten he added.The agency in charge of sanitation under the administration has also developed a strategy to increase the revenue collected from the city for cleaning services planning to earn 200 million birr annually which is 130 million birr more than what it is earning currently.
The agency currently employs people to manually clean the public streets across the city but the import of the cleaning machines will mean less people will be employed by the city for this job.
Addis Ababa has encountered challenges in efficiency with the collection and disposal of waste in the city being able to dispose just 60% of the waste that is generated. The city has recently installed a lift management system with the support of INSA to enhance the efficiency of waste collection and disposal mechanisms by electronically monitoring collection.
Source: Capital
