Mayor Balimwezo warns councilors, LC leaders

Mar 24, 2017

"It's true that you want votes but always tell them the truth. We need healthy people," he said.|

The Nakawa Division mayor Ronald Balimwezo has warned councilors, local council 1 and 2 leaders over failure to mobilize locals on sanitation related issues. He said most of them fear that they can be voted out and asked them it's high time they told people the truth.

"It's true that you want votes but always tell them the truth. We need healthy people," he said.

Speaking during the launch of sanitation home visit programme by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) at Bukoto Primary School in Mulimira zone, Nakawa on Wednesday , he warned residents against poor hygiene saying that each household should have a toilet facility emphasizing that the law will catch up with residents who will be found without toilets.

"You must treat issues of construction of toilets with urgency. Some defecate in polythene bags and end up dropping them in drainage channels," he stated.

Balimwezo said that few years ago KCCA issued out directive to city dwellers to vacate places near the railway but the leaders failed to sensitize them and this resulted into their houses, shops to be demolished.

"When they were demolished, some leaders instead joined locals and demonstrated against KCCA," said Balimwezo.

The manager sanitation at KCCA Allan Nkuruziza said about 98% of Kampala dwellers have toilets in their homes but of those, 35% of people have standard ones. He said KCCA has deployed health assistants in different divisions to mobilize people on establishment of such toilets.

Nkuruziza also said there's a move by KCCA to emphasize people on how to turn fecal matter into bio gas energy and manure for crops.

"We can as well bargain with the emptier to reduce price for the betterment of the city," said Nkuruziza.

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