KARACHI: The Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB) on Sunday said its officials had caught a number of persons in Karachi South who were littering the road with garbage in a bid to ‘defame’ the board’s effort to keep the provincial capital clean.

“Our teams have caught some individuals who were littering a street of Bath Island Clifton with the garbage they had brought in a truck,” said a spokesperson for the SSWMB while talking to Dawn.

Officials claimed what the suspects were doing by throwing garbage on the city’s street was part of the conspiracy to defame the SSWMB’s effort to keep the city clean.

“This was part of the conspiracy to demoralise our staff by making their performance questionable,” said the spokesperson.

The officials said it was not the first time that such an effort had been made to make the clean areas dirty.

“These elements have been doing such acts in the past as well. They were doing this to make our performance questionable, which was directed to make Karachi completely clean especially when our city is hosting the Pakistan Super League final.”

Published in Dawn, March 26th, 2018