Maputo Municipality owes around 160 million meticals from invoices processed from February to December 2023. The situation has caused one of the three contracted companies to paralyse its activities, leaving much of the city full of rubbish.
Maputo Municipality does not have the money to pay the debts owed to the companies that provide the solid waste collection service and says that it is mobilising additional financial resources to pay off the debt and improve the service.
In a press release, it acknowledges that waste collection has been interrupted at some points due to the debts and that it is “working hard” to mobilise money to allow the service to resume.
The municipality began to experience financial inability to immediately settle the invoices submitted by the service providers, which led to the accumulation of debts totalling huge amounts, especially with two of the contracted companies.
Aware of the problems caused by the lack of timely payment to the companies contracted for the service, Maputo City Council says it is following a financial management plan that prioritises partial payments to these companies every month, sometimes sacrificing equally important activities.
Despite the effort, the gap between the payments made and the accumulated debt has been growing steadily, generating an atmosphere of tension between the municipality and the managers of the contracted companies. This situation worsens particularly when the festive season approaches, leading to frequent threats of services being paralysed.
O País
