Karachi’s beaches must be cleaned, says Shaniera Akram
KARACHI: The wife of former captain Wasim Akram, Shaniera Akram has said that the media should broadcast the images of the garbage piled up on the beach.
Shaniera Akram on Twitter shared the images from the Karachi beach in a bid to force authorities to clean-up the area.
I have stayed silent for too long. Every tv channel needs to be running this now. You have a duty of care to protect the lives of the people of Karachi and tell them Clifton beach, as it stands, is totally unsafe for anyone!
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) September 3, 2019
In a series of messages posted on Tuesday, she said that the media should broadcast the images of the garbage piled up on the beach, as it has a duty of care to protect the lives of the people of Karachi.
News channels need to get down to the beach between chunky monkey and salt and pepper now before these rusty old tractors dig this medical waste deeper in to the sand!
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) September 3, 2019
Shaniera tweeted, “I have walked on Clifton beach every day for the last four years and I have never been scared until today. This beach needs to be shut down now.”
I have walked on Clifton beach everyday for the last 4 years and I have never been scared until today. This beach needs to be shut down now
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) September 3, 2019
She tweeted, “Medical waste, syringes, vials of blood that has come in from the ocean has spread across Clifton beach for kilometres.”
DO NOT go to the beach and try to clean it, this is biohazardous waste and needs to be a restricted area and cleaned by professionals. The sea and beach needs to be declared unsafe for everyone immediately
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) September 3, 2019
Right now on Clifton Beach! Please listen to me, this has crossed the line of dangerous! We need to #CloseTheBeachNow #StateOfEmergency #CliftonBeachIsABioHazardZone pic.twitter.com/iLcn1kZLqY
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) September 3, 2019
Retweet #SaveOurCity #ThisHasToStop #CliftonBeachEmergency pic.twitter.com/MfVKPm78Mc
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) September 3, 2019
We deserve better than this ! #CliftonBeach #StateOfEmergency #MedicalWasteHasWashedUpOnOurBeavh #CliftonBeachShutDown pic.twitter.com/Z64vIHJLtA
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) September 3, 2019
She asked the authorities in a tweet, “Why is the beach still open? For me, this is not a blame game this is a “we need to act now” problem and close the beach. I don’t want to be in this position but I have no choice peoples lives are at stake and I was faced with a moral obligation. People needed to know about this.”
Why is the beach still open? For me,This is not a blame game this is a “we need to act now”problem & close the beach. I don’t want to be in this position but I have no choice peoples lives are at stake and I was faced with a moral obligation. People needed to know about this
— Shaniera Akram (@iamShaniera) September 3, 2019
Hospital waste, especially several open-needle syringes, have washed up on the shore and pose a severe health hazard for the citizens who are visiting Karachi beach in the rainy weather.
