The end of the mandate of the former tenant of the town hall of Kinshasa was surrounded of the polemic, disappointments, failures and masts which often eclipsed its achievements. Kinshasa people upset, judged in their quasi-unanimity, the opaque management of the city. Safety, cleanliness or new mobilities, all these values were far from the intentions of the team of the urban administration of Kinshasa which defenestrated on December 30, 2018.
As long as the head of the provincial executive has fallen asleep on his laurels for 15 years or more of his term without sparing useless expenses. The rivers of Kinshasa are more than polluted. City Hall has muted all the warnings of pollution of the waters of the rivers.
The city preferred to invest in the digestive tracts of its apparatchiks, rather than to give priority to the drainage works of the rivers. Choice which would have enabled him to save thousands of dollars in the environmental sector for the capital
Very concerned about the drama, observers were unanimous. They defined the main tributaries Kalamu, Makelele, Bitshaku-tshaku, Tshwenge, Mososo, Lukunga, not forgetting N'Djili, as rivers of plastics. As far as they are covered, on their surfaces, piles of garbage waste discarded by consumers and manufacturers.
It's like being in a garbage dump. The bottles float on the water. They cover the entire surface of the river. Kids are walking on this plastic carpet in almost general indifference.
"It started in 2003-2004, the piling up of plastic waste and the people who dump plastic waste," explains Eric Katankupole, a resident of Kalamu municipality. "Especially when it's raining, everyone enjoys throwing garbage in the rain in the Kalamu River".
The Mososo river crosses the neighborhood of which it bears the name, a deprived district of the kinshasa capital. Visible pollution, but largely, avoidable since caused by the inhabitants themselves.
"It's deplorable", a neighbor says. "When I was a child, I came to bathe in this river because the water was clean. But today, bottles and all kinds of garbage have made their home there. It is regrettable"...
(CKS/Yes)