20 sentenced to community service for littering city

Jan 04, 2012

Twenty people guilty of littering the city will serve six hours of community service.

By Juliet Waiswa                     

Twenty people will serve six hours community service after they were found guilty on Wednesday by a Kampala court of littering the city.

The twenty, including an engineer attached to Sheraton Hotel Kampala, were convicted by the Kampala City Council Court Magistrate, Juliet Hatanga. They will clean the drainage systems in Nakawa and Rubaga Division in Kampala.

The convicts were arrested by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) law enforcement officers.  The arrests are a follow-up of efforts by KCCA to step up responsible garbage disposal by the city dwellers under the Solid Waste Management Ordinance 2000.

KCCA garbage management regulations state that it is the responsibility of garbage generators to dispose of rubbish at the right collection points.

Prosecutors told the court that the convicts were found dumping waste which included bad food, plastic bags and plastic bottles along Nile Avenue Street in the city center.

In December 2011, KCCA embarked on an exercise to arrest anybody found littering the city centre. The maximum sentence for a person found littering is two months imprisonment, 20 hours of community service or a fine of sh40, 000.

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